[ale] SOVLED: Re: [ale] mouse reconfig

Gene Matthews gene at mmc-inc.com
Thu Jan 3 15:55:08 EST 2002


Thanks, Jim and Thomas for your replies.  It was the XF86Config-4 file. 
      Once I changed it there and restarted X, all was well.  Having the 
third button (via emulation or otherwise) certainly makes it easier to 
do stuff.

Thanks again,

Gene

Mazukna, Thomas wrote:

> I do not know how about your system, but mine ( debian unstable )
> in /etc/X11/ I have XF86Config and XF86Config-4 
> XF86Config-4 is the one to modify... I made couple changes and was worried
> that 
> nothing changes, then I found this one :))
> 
> good luck.
> Tomas
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Matthews [mailto:gene at mmc-inc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 10:34 AM
> To: Jim Philips
> Cc: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] mouse reconfig
> 
> 
> unless I'm doing something wrong, that didn't seem to do anything for me.
> 
> I uncommented out the Emulate3Buttons line and restarted X.  Actually I 
> have rebooted since then since I had to powerdown to go home.  This is a 
> laptop if that should make any difference (I don't think it would).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gene
> 
> Jim Philips wrote:
> 
> 
>>This is handled in the XF86Config file. If you edit it, there should be
>>a mouse section. You want to uncomment the line that says
>>Emulate3Buttons. After that you should just have to restart X for the
>>setting to take.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 09:55, Gene Matthews wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Anyone know how I can reconfig my mouse?  I forgot to check the "emulate 
>>> 3-button mouse" when I installed and I really miss that.  I have poked 
>>>around a little but haven't found where I can do this yet.  I'm running 
>>>RH7.1 with the Ximian packages installed.
>>>
>>>Control Center has a mouse screen but only lets you change left vs right 
>>>handed and some speed stuff.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Gene
>>>
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