3 button mouse

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> 1.  Few FreeBSD applications support the wheel out of the box, so it's
>     not much use.

Most X applications support wheel scrolling out of the box if moused
and X are configured properly.  This includes xterm, emacs, gimp, and
all browsers I've tried, as well as all GTK and Qt applications (read
gnome and kde).

> 2.  Setup is non-trivial.  Every mouse seems to have its own protocol,
>     and I have a number here which I can't enable.

I've never had a mouse that moused couldn't autodetect.  As for
enabling the wheel, just add '-z 4' to moused's command line and
'Option "Buttons" "5"' to the appropriate InputDevice section in
xorg.conf.

I have to admit that I don't use the middle button much (Shift-Ins and
Ctrl-V are far more convenient), but I use the wheel a lot.

DES
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