Mike Orr wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 04:14:52PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Does anybody have any info on using the 4-button/1-wheel logitech
> > mouseman+ mouse with linux?
>
> See Colas Nahaboo's X Mouse Wheel Scroll Page at
> http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
> and also also /usr/doc/X11/README.mouse
>
> You will have to spend some time tweaking the settings and your
> XF86Config file and making sure each button does what you want. I have
> a Logitech MouseMan+, which I had set up specially so that buttons 2 and
> 3 are reversed, so that the right button does "paste" (same as GPM) and
> the bottom button does the other thing. (I think I put a "pointer 1 3
> 2" line or such somewhere, but I can't find it in ~/.xsession or
> /etc/X11/XF86Config so I'm not sure where I put it.)
There is a 'pointer' command for Xmodmap, thats probably where you put
it.
> Anyway, when I tried to set up the mouse wheel thing, my paste button
> moved to the bottom button, and the Debian Menu (which I use all the
> time) also moved to the bottom button. This was intolerable, so I
> backed out the changes until I can find some time to get all the buttons
> right.
>
> Also, the doc mentions that your applications receive the wheel-up and
> wheel-down events as two extra "buttons" but then makess you remap the
> button order because X only supports 5 buttons and you now have 6. I'm
> not sure what the optimal settings should be, and how each application
> should be set up.
>
> If you try this and it works, let me know. Maybe we can put together a
> "Suggested Debian Solution" if no one else is working on it.
>
> One advantage of Linux over Windows is that the Windows driver cannot
> distinguish between pressing the bottom button and pressing the wheel
> button. I got one of these mice for my mother (she finds it better for
> her hand than the MS mice because of her carpal-tunnel syndrome).
> Anyway, she didn't want to do any dragging, and so we made the wheel
> button be a "start drag" command. Unfortunately, the function got
> propagated to the bottom button as well. But because she's used to
> resting her thumb right where the bottom button is, she was constantly
> pressing the bottom button inadvertently. So we had to disable the
> bottom button, which meant we lost the wheel button and the "drag
> button" function as well.
>
> > What about gpm?
>
> I haven't heard anything about GPM.
>
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