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From: dbader@umiacs.umd.edu (David A. Bader)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: middle mouse button?
Date: 17 Jan 1997 22:14:36 -0500
Organization: Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), Univ of Maryland, College Park
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Hi,
  Well, I got my first FreeBSD CD-ROM's in the mail yesterday, and
already bought some hardware yesterday, installed, and am up and
running! I figured out ppp, emacs19.31, and some other minor glitches.
Now I'm stuck on this: I have a three-buttom serial mouse plugged into
COM1 (/dev/cuaa0). Is there anyway to get X to recognize this button?
If not, how do I fake a middle-mouse button press?

Second question: Is there a packages like "xplaces" for freebsd?
(or does anyone have some good X dotfiles for a FreeBSD-newbie ;)

thanks,
david

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