[SunRescue] "emulate3buttons" on Solaris?

Cyrus M. Reed rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Jan 26 11:15:37 CST 2001


Someone might have already suggested this, but try just clicking the wheel
as the third button.  I think that's supposed to work...  the KVM switch
might bugger it though.

-Cyrus

On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:

> Anybody know how to make Solaris/SPARC do the equivalent of "emulate3buttons"
> under Xfree86?
> I can switch the monitor between systems with the switch on the front, and
> switch the KB/Mouse between systems with the switchbox.  However, my
> current favorite pointing device is a 2-button (with wheel, ick) Microsoft
> optical mouse - which only has 2 buttons.  I'd like to be able to emulate
> the middle button on a 3-button mouse somehow, as it comes in handy when
> doing cut/paste under Solaris/*nix.  I'd like to be able to use the MS
> mouse, and not have to go back to the Logitech Trackman Marble FX that
> I was using about a month ago (altho it IS better than nothing at all).
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Bill




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