On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 03:15:32PM -0800, Tom wrote: > The wheel works fine. The additional button on the right side appears > to behave identically to the right mouse button. The additional button > on the left appears to behave like clicking the wheel button (i.e., the > middle button) in Mozilla and appears to have bizarre, unpredictable > effects in gnome-terminal (if I press it while in "less" then "nano" > gets started and some text gets pasted in). The small button behind the > wheel does nothing.
I noticed the same thing. My mouse had the same config as yours when I first plugged it in, and I had the same results. If you run 'xev', you'll see that those buttons are simply recognized as Button2 and Button3. As far as X knows/cares, your real Button2/3 are the exact same things as the side buttons. Interesting, though, that the small middle button is silent. Could you possibly do me a favor and run 'xev', and then put your mouse cursor over it, and hit that button, and then report whether anything comes out? > I wouldn't even know what's useful to map them to in GNU/Linux + X. > In windows they act as browser-back and browser-forward for Web Pages > and the shell. Basically I don't need them. I bought this mouse specifically because it had lots of buttons, and didn't have a completely ridiculous price ($30). At least a *somewhat* reasonable price.. $50 or $80 is just ridiculous to me for a mouse, I don't care how many buttons it has. I'm not sure what I'll use them for exactly yet, but I know I'll find good uses for them. For example, I currently use alt+mouse wheel to raise/lower windows, and I turn off all auto raising on click/hover/etc. I like this *a lot*. If you do feel like making them work, consider my original message a mini how-to. ;) -- Nick Welch aka mackstann | mack @ incise.org | http://incise.org Earn cash in your spare time -- blackmail your friends -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
