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From: csdalton@tcd.ie (Colin Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: 3 button mice for X11
Date: 30 May 1996 11:06:11 GMT
Organization: University of Dublin, Trinity College
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In <4od30e$i9k@uriah.heep.sax.de> j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:

>Unfortunately, i don't think the XFree86 servers do support swapping
>mouse buttons 1 and 3.  This seems to be a useful extension, and i'm

AFAIR, xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1" works.

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