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[ILUG] [Q] broken mouse work-arounds / replacements

[ILUG] [Q] broken mouse work-arounds / replacements

John Madden john+ilug at jmadden.eu
Wed May 27 08:52:14 IST 2009


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On (26/05/09 19:21), Brian Foster said:
>   replaceable), and so on .... i.e., I'd rather not replace
>   the mouse .... which is why I'm hoping there's something I
>   can tweak to use one of the to-date-useless buttons to act
>   as button 2.
> 
http://tlug.up.ac.za/wiki/index.php/Xorg_and_5-button_mice

Specifically, you need to use "ExplorerPS/2" as your mouse driver
instead of ImPS/2 to support more than 5 mouse buttons, then use xmodmap
to remap the mouse buttons to do what you want.

- -- 
John Madden -- john at jmadden.eu
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