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Re: Microsoft mouse middle button not working with x11 OSX 10.5

So I finally got it to work.

I downloaded USB Overdrive but it assigned the middle button to application switching just like command-tab.  I never set it to do that but it did.

When I un-installed USB Overdrive and MS Mouse drivers I found that X11 recognized my middle mouse button no problems!!!!

So this was fixed with subsequent X11 development.  Thank you guys VERY much!!!!

However my button 5 wasn't assignable via OSX so I downloaded the MS driver and specifically told the MS driver to allow "Handled by OS" for buttons 1-4 (button 4 was assigned via Expose).

Sooooo I assigned button 5 to "back" via the MS mouse panel and turned everything else off in MS mouse.

Now I finally have a fully functional mouse with X11 and OSX applications.

All the best and thanks again for all your help with mice, X11, and X11 apps.
Ryan



On Nov 26, 2007, at 1:10 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:


On Nov 26, 2007, at 10:17, Ryan McKay wrote:
2.) in Mac OS 10.4 I needed to go to the Microsoft Mouse controller and tell it what to do with each mouse button in order to emulate left, right and middle appropriately.  For example I'd tell MS mouse that the middle button (three button mouse) should do an option-left click in order for X11 to know what I wanted to do.

From Nathaniel Gray's post, I now realize how insane this all is.  MS's controller doesn't even have an option to have right click send a real right click nor middle click to send a real middle click... This is the root of the problem.  Try his solution of either paying $20 for the USB Overdrive drivers or uninstall the MS drivers and use Apple's builtin drivers since this is a HID compliant mouse.

3.) Hmmm....I thought I had to as X11 never understood my middle button.

Maybe it's because you're using funky MS drivers for the mouse...





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