Three button mouse emulation

Open Slate openslateproj at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 17:06:09 UTC 2011


A simple way to enable three button mouse emulation is to put

mouse_flags=-3

in /etc/rc.conf. I cannot find this documented anywhere. Section 4.5 of the
faq mentions this feature and refers to the moused man page, where we are
told to pass -3 to moused. Similar treatment in the handbook. Section
2.10.10. Only a seasoned veteran would think to look in
/etc/defaults/rc.conf.

This trick is especially useful to laptop users and should be in the
handbook.


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