Can console emulate 3 button mouse

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 11:11:39AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> 
> > is two button.   In X it does the emulate 3 button when both
> > buttons are pressed just fine.   But, that doesn't seem to work
> > on the console.  It highlights text just fine, but I haven't
> > discovered a combination that will get it to write that back out.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > I have done some searching and tried various things that might
> > be remotely related, but nothing has helped.
> 
> 
> See moused(8) -- the first option described is '-3' which enables
> emulation of the middle button in exactly the same way as it works
> under X.

Yup.   Got it.   I had gotten off on to a wrong search track
and needed to start looking for the right thing.

Thanks,

////jerry

> 
> Just stick:
> 
>     moused_flags=3D"-3"
> 
> into /etc/rc.conf
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
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