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middle button & logitech mice: more info
- From: Luke Deller <ldeller at xplantechnology dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 11:53:34 +1000
- Subject: middle button & logitech mice: more info
Hi,
Looking through the archives for this list, I have noticed that others
have had a problem getting the middle button on Logitech mice to work in
XFree86 in cygwin. The only solution that I found in the archives was to
avoid Logitech's drivers. This is not necessary.
It seems that the middle mouse button can easily be enabled by a simple
setting in the "Mouse properties" control panel. In the tab entitled
"Buttons", each of the three buttons can be assigned a wide variety of
actions. The default assignment of the middle button causes it not to
work in XFree86. I use the following assignment to make the buttons work
"normally":
Button 1 (left): "Click/Select"
Button 2 (middle): "Middle Button"
Button 3 (right): "Context Menu/Alternate Select"
(yes they number their buttons strangely - the tab has a nice picture to
illustrate their numbering of buttons)
Hope this helps anyone trying to get their 3-button/scroll logitech mouse
to work with a middle button.
Regards,
Luke.