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From: omar@umbc.edu (Omar Siddique)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: 3-button ps/2 mouse in X?
Date: 10 Sep 1996 23:21:43 -0400
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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I've got a three-button Logitech Mouseman that connects to the
PS/2 style mouseport.  Xfree recognizes this as a ps/2 mouse,
that is, a 2 button mouse.  Is there anything I can do to make it
realize it's really a three-button mouse and use all three buttons?
Thanks,

-- These are my opinions only --
Omar Siddique| CS major - University of Maryland, Baltimore County campus
	     | University Computing Services - Systems Group
             | email: omar@umbc.edu WWW: http://research.umbc.edu/~omar
"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau"