Re: x11 & mouse buttons
Re: x11 & mouse buttons
- Subject: Re: x11 & mouse buttons
- From: Greg Parker <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:09:49 -0800
On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 12:59 AM, Markian Hlynka wrote:
I've been wondering about this too. I have my logitech driver set to
right-click, and option-click with the middle button. Can I use this
USB Overdrive?
More to the point, however, is that even with the right and left click
set "properly", I still seem to need "emulate three button mouse"
turned _on in the preferences. This doesn't make sense to me. It seems
to me that if I _have a 3 button mouse, I shouldn't need to _emulate
one. Am I totally misunderstanding something here?
I haven't used Logitech's driver software, but I have tested Kensington
MouseWorks and USB Overdrive. There are two ways to configure a real
three-button mouse to work with X11.app and XDarwin:
#1: Enable X11's "mouse button emulation" and configure the mouse
software to send option-click and control-click for buttons 2 and 3.
This is what you are currently doing, I think.
#2: Disable X11's "mouse button emulation" and configure the mouse
software to send "middle click" and "right click" for buttons 2 and 3.
This is the preferred configuration for a mouse with three physical
buttons.
Make sure you have the most recent version of your mouse software. I
know that USB Overdrive and Kensington MouseWorks both had trouble with
XDarwin a year ago, but the current versions work great.
Is there any way to enable the scroll-wheel?
XDarwin looks for standard Cocoa scroll wheel events and turns them
into X11 buttons 4 and 5. (I'm not sure what X11.app does.) Some X11
apps like xterm understand this out of the box, but other X11 apps
might need to be configured to recognize buttons 4 and 5 as scroll
wheel motion. Use the xev program to check whether your X11 server is
actually generating any X11 events when you move the wheel.
(Off-topic plug: My Frankenmouse is better than your mouse.
http://sealiesoftware.com/frankenmouse/ )
--
Greg Parker email@hidden Java & Objective-C
email@hidden XDarwin
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