Re: Microsoft mouse, the "sort_of middle" button support?
Thomas E. Dodd /CSDC (ted@cypress.com)
Fri, 08 Jan 1999 12:18:57 -0600
Tigran Aivazian wrote:
>
> Hello Brave and Mighty Men of Linux,
>
> Is anyone working on supporting the Microsoft-specific beasts with the
> little button in between which does the scrolling in Microsoft-specific
> attempts to write an OS? I thought it could be made to work like a third
> button provided the protocol is open and available.
>
> I am not suggesting at all to write the native kernel and XFree support for it
> (nothing from Microsoft will deserve that, until the day they repent and do
> what they were created to do - write good GUI applications for Linux), but
> merely an emulation of standard 2-button PS/2 /dev/psaux.
It's already in XFree86 :)
So ar the new Double scroll wheels :)
Look in the XFree docs (XF86Config I think)
Does gpm support it yet?
-Thomas
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