| Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 08:52:14 +0100
| From: John Madden <john+ilug at jmadden.eu>
|
| On (26/05/09 19:21), Brian Foster said:
| >[ ... ] 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
that looks promising. I'll play with it later
when I have time (i.e., probably this upcoming
holiday(3-day) weekend). thanks!
cheers,
-blf-
| 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.
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