On Mon, 29 May 2000, Bernie wrote:
> Hmm... it seems that Logitech mice are the ones that aren't working (or
> rather vice versa), you are the third IIRC that's reported this Michael.
> Quite frankly I don't know what could be wrong since I've not changed that
> part - have you used the older versions of Cute Mouse succesfully?
No, I have tried only 1.6a
> What driver are you using to actually get three buttons to work in Arachne?
imouse (I am not sure where it came frome - I usually keep any mouse
driver I find somewhere on some intallation floppy or hard disk of other
PC, which works for me ;) But adding it to Arachne package includes some
license issues...). I used to use gmouse some time ago...
> (I can't get CTMOUSE to do this for me on a com-port mouse). Arachne is
> actually the only program I have that uses three buttons. IMO it's not good
> to assume that the mouse has three buttons - PS/2 mice for instance only
Arachne doesn't require middle button, and there is nothing like
initializing mouse driver in three button mode, or so. So from my point
of view it is completely harmless to assign some useful, but not critical
functionality to 3rd button. In case of Arachne, it is mainly Paste - same
as in X11....
> have two and they are comming (sadly) more and more common since the ATX
> motherboards uses PS/2 for mouse and keyboard.
> I've already suggested that Arachne simulates the third button as left and
> right pressed at once (perhaps requiring additions to x_lopif) - including
Oh... I haven't done it yet ? ;-) It is very simple - button values are
1,2 or 4; while 3 is bitwise-or of 1|2, which means both buttons.
> it in the mouse driver (something I've been thinking about adding to Cute
> Mouse) isn't as good since you still can't assume that three buttons exist
> (or can be simulated).
I wouldn't buy mouse without third button ;-)) Because pasting text by
middle button is one of features I really like in X11, and which are much
better designed than in Windows...
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