[NBLUG/talk] Gaining the full benefits of a 5-button mouse?

Lincoln Peters sampln at sbcglobal.net
Sun Jan 11 19:45:01 PST 2004


On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 19:26, E Frank Ball wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 06:41:13PM -0800, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> } I just upgraded to a 5-button mouse on my Debian box.  So far, I can use
> } the left, right, and whell buttons normally and without any difficulty,
> } but I can't figure out how to configure the two extra buttons.  It seems
> 
> What window manager are you using?  It's likely configured there.

I'm using Sawfish (the default window manager in GNOME 2.4), and it
looks like the Sawfish Configurator controls this in the "Bindings"
tab.  However, it looks like something has already mapped these buttons
so that Button 4 is treated as Button 2 (the middle button), and Button
5 is treated as Button 3 (the right button).

I think I traced the problem to the XFree86 configuration and fixed it,
but I'll have to log out and log back in to be sure that it works.  And
that can be somewhat disruptive to my work flow when I'm running a lot
of programs.  I'll report back as soon as I get a chance to try it.

-- 
Lincoln Peters <sampln at sbcglobal.net>




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