RE: 3rd button from the sun

["Paul Sims" <nospam [at] lombard.co.uk>]

>    Emulate3Timeout 50
you've got it set to emulate 3 buttons rather than a 3-button mouse. Try rerunning xf86config & specifying 3-button MouseMan.

On Tuesday, February 29, 2000 12:26 PM, Jose Luis Gomez Dans [SMTP:j.l.gomez-dans [at] sheffield.ac.uk] wrote:
> Hi!
> 	I've have had to use the 3rd button on my mouse on X today, and
> found that it doesn't work. It works fine in the console with gpm, and
> it works fine in X with gpm running in the console (that meaning: gpm
> isn't interfering with the mouse). This mouse is some sort of
> microsoft/mouse man device, and you switch it to mouseman by pressing
> any of the buttons at boot time (or something along these lines). But
> the middle button works fine under gpm, so obviously, something's wrong
> in the X configuration. Here's a copy of /etc/gpm.conf
> 
> device=/dev/ttyS0
> responsiveness=
> repeat_type=ms3
> type=ms
> append=""
> 
> and the relevant bit of XF86Config:
> 
> Section "Pointer"
>    Protocol        "Microsoft"
>    Device          "/dev/mouse"
>    BaudRate        1200
>    Emulate3Timeout 50
> EndSection
> 
> 	Does anyone have any clues? I'm short of time at present to RTFM
> :)
> 
> 	Thanks,
> 	Jose
> --
> Jose L Gomez Dans			PhD student
> 					Radar & Communications Group
> 					Department of Electronic Engineering
> 					University of Sheffield UK
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