mouse

Brian J. Conway dogbert at clue4all.net
Wed Jul 25 10:26:55 EDT 2001


> A wheel can be clicked.  So should I be getting a three button
> mouse, or using the wheel as the third button?  Is a wheel
> just an ornament in X?

Wheel mice in X are actually 5 button mice (assuming a normal wheel mouse
and not those feature 9 or 10 buttons).  Buttons 1 and 2 function as
normal, clicking the wheel is 3, and 4 and 5 are for scroll up and down (I
forget which is which).  Most distro's 'mouseconfig' will set them up
correctly, including XF86Config files, and I've never had an issue getting
mine to work.

-b


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