3 button mouse

[John Baldwin]

On Monday 28 February 2005 05:31 pm, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Monday, 28 February 2005 at 22:52:08 +0100, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote:
> > David Scheidt <dmschei at attglobal.net> writes:
> >> I need a three button mouse.  Just three buttons, no wheel, no bells,
> >> no whistles.  I can't find one, as everything has a silly wheel.  I'm
> >> not picky about interface (PS/2, USB, serial, or Bluetooth will work),
> >> or balls v. optical.  Does anyone still sell these things?
> >
> > what do you have against mouse wheels?  they are very useful in X,
> > and also function as a middle button.
>
> Let me count the ways...
>
> 1.  Few FreeBSD applications support the wheel out of the box, so it's
>     not much use.

KDE supports it out of the box.  Just add '-3 -z 4' to your moused flags and 
make sure X thinks the mouse has 5 buttons and you are good to go.  
Konqueror, konsole, etc. all have wheel support.  I think for my current USB 
trackball I basically just plugged it in and it all worked immediately.

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