* Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@xxxxxxx> [20080203 21:53]: > I find that the "Expert Mouse" from Kensington is well worth the expense. > Symmetrical, 4 buttons, a scroll ring and a really big trackball. Thank you, I will have a look at that. > It is vitally important to fixup your xorg.conf file to define one of > the buttons as a drag lock button. I can't do dragging with a trackball > unless I have drag-lock. Too much finger contortion or you have to > get both hands into the act otherwise. > > Another hint: I find that the autoconfiguration tools for X on > linux tend to fill in some specific protocol like Imps (or however > it is spelled). That usually leaves only three buttons working. > Setting the protocol to "Auto" makes all the buttons visible, then > you can give them sensible mappings with xmodmap. Do you have any xorg.conf and xmodmap examples you could share? :) I am specifically interested in the drag-lock you mention, as that would be useful to me as well. /Anders
