Xorg and mice

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Wednesday, August 17, 2005 18:05:14 -0500 Paul Schmehl 
<pauls at utdallas.edu> wrote:
>
> Does anyone have a working example?  (I'm not interested in using xmodmap
> unless that's the only way to get it working.)  Is there a utility that
> can tell you which button (number) you pressed so you can test all the
> buttons and wheels on a mouse?  I tried xev, but it did nothing at all.
>
I finally figured out how to use xev.  :-)

The first five buttons report normally.  However, neither of the side 
buttons generates an event, and pressing the wheel to the left does but 
pressing the wheel to the right does not.

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
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