At 7:05 PM +0800 8/3/05, chan henry wrote: >I am having a problem with my mouse. What I have is a USB mouse, with >3 buttons and one wheel (one of which is the wheel itself, which can >be pressed like a button) > >the wheel can be used for "copy and paste" key in my FC3 installation, >but it dont work in FC4 now. I have config it as a "3 button USB >mouse", but it still refused to work. How can I get the "copy and >paste" key working again? (just dont want to use the emulation as a >substitute) > >Thanks in Advance > >-- >fedora-list mailing list >fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list I had the opposite problem in FC3; I wanted to disable my middle button. It is possible that the (useful) advice reproduced below for disabling it will point to your problem. At 3:28 PM +1000 6/7/05, Steffen Kluge wrote: >On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 01:00 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: >> I've since put everything back and I'm back where I started. > >If you want to retain scrolling, but disable middle-button clicking, you >could just map button 2 (middle) out of the way. > >If you use xmodmap -pp without any re-mappings in place you probably get >something like: > > There are 7 pointer buttons defined. > > Physical Button > Button Code > 1 1 > 2 2 > 3 3 > 4 4 > 5 5 > 6 6 > 7 7 > > >Swapping button 2 with button 7 (which is unused) should disable >middle-click: xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 7 3 4 5 6 2" while retaining wheel >functionality. If you're happy with this you can put it into the X init >file of your choice. > >Cheers >Steffen. At 3:35 PM +1000 6/7/05, Steffen Kluge wrote: >On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 15:28 +1000, Steffen Kluge wrote: >> If you use xmodmap -pp without any re-mappings in place you probably get >> something like: >> >> There are 7 pointer buttons defined. > >Sorry for replying to myself, I forgot to add: in case you only see 5 >buttons here you need to add an extra (unused) button by increasing the >"Buttons" option in the "InputDevice" section in xorg.conf. > >Cheers >Steffen. At 3:15 PM -0400 6/7/05, Tony Nelson wrote: >At 3:28 PM +1000 6/7/05, Steffen Kluge wrote: ... >>Cheers >>Steffen. > >Aha! Thank you, that seems to do the trick. apropos mouse didn't find >xmodmap for me because xmodmap talks about "pointers". > >Actually, xmodmap says I have only 5 pointer buttons, but I mapped 2 to 7 >anyway. :) I chose to put it into /exc/X11/Xmodmap (seems logical) for >everyone (well, just me, really). > > >At 3:35 PM +1000 6/7/05, Steffen Kluge wrote: > >>> There are 7 pointer buttons defined. >> >>Sorry for replying to myself, I forgot to add: in case you only see 5 >>buttons here you need to add an extra (unused) button by increasing the >>"Buttons" option in the "InputDevice" section in xorg.conf. > >I don't seem to have to change that. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
