On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:04:39AM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 01:03:46PM -0600, Mauro wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 14:54 -0400, Tamas K Papp wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > In I11, I would like certain keys (F11, F12) to behave as if I pressed > > > the mouse buttons 2 or 3. Is it possible? > > Yes, > the "showkey" or "xev" commands are your friends to find out > what numbers those keys produce. > Next put them into the files in > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid# ls > mouse_button2_keycode mouse_button3_keycode mouse_button_emulation > echo 1 >mouse_button_emulation
Thanks for Mauro, Bernhard Reiter and Joerg Sommer for their help. For the archives (if somebody has a similar problem), I chose to go with the sysctl method, now my /etc/sysctl.conf has # 3-button mouse emulation # turn on emulation /dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation = 1 # Send middle mouse button signal with the F11 key /dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode = 87 # Send right mouse button signal with the F12 key /dev/mac_hid/mouse_button3_keycode = 88 which works nicely, assigning F11 and F12 to buttons 2 and 3. The keycodes produced by xev are different from the ones given by showkey, and I had use the latter. For some reason I thought this would require gpm working, but apparently it does not because it is done by the kernel. Thanks, Tamas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
