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 | | From: | Marc_Krämer | | Subject: | mouse buttons | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:46:28 +0100 |
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 | Hi,
in your changelog you say:
"Support for mouse buttons 6 and 7 (side buttons)"
how can I use them? what do I need to add to mouse configuration? is there
any standard-configuration for these buttons available?
thx
Marc
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| | From: | tbt | | Subject: | Re: mouse buttons | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 14:21:30 -0700 |
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| On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:46:28 +0100, Marc Krämer wrote:
> Hi,
> in your changelog you say:
> "Support for mouse buttons 6 and 7 (side buttons)"
>
> how can I use them? what do I need to add to mouse configuration? is
> there any standard-configuration for these buttons available?
>
> thx
> Marc
Right now those are hardwired for forward and back history, so you can use
them for that. later on they will make it so you can do whatever you want
or turn them off, because on some mice those buttons are a scroll wheel.
Tbt.
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| | From: | Steven V. Gunhouse | | Subject: | Re: mouse buttons | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 21:55:40 GMT |
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| On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 14:21:30 -0700, tbt wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:46:28 +0100, Marc Krämer
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> in your changelog you say:
>> "Support for mouse buttons 6 and 7 (side buttons)"
>>
>> how can I use them? what do I need to add to mouse configuration? is
>> there any standard-configuration for these buttons available?
>>
>> thx
>> Marc
>
> Right now those are hardwired for forward and back history, so you can
> use them for that. later on they will make it so you can do whatever you
> want or turn them off, because on some mice those buttons are a scroll
> wheel.
If you conigured your mouse as something akin to an "Intellimouse
Explorer", the extra buttons should have been configured automatically. If
not ...
Actually, the Back and Forward are buttons 4 and 5, but most Linux
programs expect 4 and 5 to represent the scroll wheel. If you have to set
it up manually, what you need to do (what other systems do automatically)
is to tell X that you have a 5-button mouse and to map the wheel to
buttons 6 and 7, and then set up a mapping to exchange 4 with 6 and 5 with
7. That way the wheel ends up where everyone expects it to be, and the
extra buttons become 6 and 7.
If you need more details I can look it up, though of course I'd need some
idea of your actual mouse type.
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