Remap mouse buttons for remote X serverss

LLeweLLyn Reese llewelly at lifesupport.shutdown.com
Sun Jul 20 20:34:12 PDT 2003


"J. Seth Henry" <jshamlet at comcast.net> writes:

> Hi gang,
> I've recently started using NCD Explora's to connect to my FreeBSD
> server. They are quiet, reasonably fast, and small. Unfortunately,
> NCDware has some odd quirks.
> 
> The first is that it only supports a two-button mouse. What's odd is
> that when I run xev, it reports button1 and button3? (I have a wheel
> mouse attached - but the wheel button doesn't show up).
> 
> I'd like to chord the mouse buttons, but I'm not sure how to do that,
> given that I'm no longer running X locally. IOW - I'd like to be able to
> use cut and paste in xterms again.

You should be able to chord by putting this in your XF86Config:

    Option "Emulate3Buttons"

Also, you may find:

http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/4.3.0/mouse5.html#21

useful in general.


> 
> The other is that the page-up key doesn't work correctly. However, I
> think that may be "fixable" with xmodmap.
[snip]

You could try different XkbModels.



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