Re: map side mouse button to button 2?

[Takuma Murakami <takuma at dgp dot ne dot jp>]

Jeffrey,

Try to map 'autoscroll' for your favorite side button via
IntelliPoint software.  Since then the side button should work
as button2.  Like this approach you could freely remap mouse
buttons on the Windows layer.  Since IntelliPoint provides
per-application remapping, the configuration for XWin.exe
will not affect other Windows programs.

Takuma Murakami


> Thanks everyone for the help.  I upgraded my cygwin build to a Jan30 
> version, so xmodmap works and can mix around the button functions.  
> However, in xev, buttons '4' and '5' indeed (as someone posted earlier 
> today) correspond to the wheel motions, not to the buttons on the side 
> of my mouse.  These buttons produce nothing xev -- so will it ever be 
> possible to use these buttons in cygwin-xfree?
> 
> Harold, your solution worked, setting the middle button to autoscroll 
> recovers the usual paste function.
> 
> The current solution is suboptimal--I still dislike using the wheel 
> button so regularly, and it seems a shame to waste the perfectly good 
> side buttons on the mouse.  If anyone comes up with better solutions, 
> please let me know.  For now at least everything works.