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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!nih-csl!postman From: crtb@helix.nih.gov (Chuck Bacon) Subject: Mouse button 2 doesn't work Message-ID: <1993Oct4.140601.3834@alw.nih.gov> Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster) Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1993 14:06:01 GMT Lines: 27 I put up XFree86-1.3, and almost everything works. I even edited my Xconfig, and got the strange business of the moving screens settled by choosing the right pixel density. But I can't get the middle mouse button to work! I turned Emulate3ButtonMouse on and off, and it doesn't work either way. I'll admit that I can get the effect of a 3 button mouse by hitting buttons 1 and 3 simultaneously, but that ain't what I paid for (figure of speech; the free software is priceless)! The mouse is a no-name, CompuDyne mouse with a slide switch on the bottom which says (Microsoft <-> Mouse systems), and I have switched it to Microsoft. I also changed Logitech to Microsoft in Xconfig. Can I get a real 3-button mouse out of this? Or is perhaps the Microsoft mouse inherently a 2-button thing, and my mouse disables the middle button? In DOS-windows, only the button 1 ever seems to do anything. I think I've seen a diagnostic which shows that button 2 works, but I don't remember for sure. Any help on this one? -- Chuck Bacon - crtb@helix.nih.gov ( alas, not my 3b1 )-: ABHOR SECRECY - DEFEND PRIVACY