Re: Checking Cygwin version (FAQ Alert!) (Was Re: map mouse button 4 or 5 to button 2?)
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 06:11:57PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Jeffrey J. Gray wrote: [snip] ... and I'm running hm, not sure how to check my Cygwin version, it's probably ~4 months old on WinXP. Jeff, Just like on any Unix system, uname -srv will return the kernel (in Cygwin's case, cygwin1.dll) version. On Cygwin, you can also use cygcheck -srv to get detailed information about your system (essential for diagnosing Cygwin problems, see http://cygwin.com/problems.html), or cygcheck -cd to just get the versions of all installed packages (or omit the -d flag to also check them for integrity). If you post the output of either cygcheck -srv or cygcheck -cd, please *attach* it to your message, rather than including it inline. Or, since all he wanted was the Cygwin version, just uname -r or cygcheck -cd cygwin would work fine. :) P.S. I was surprised that this isn't in the FAQ. David, could you please add this, under the heading What version of Cygwin do I have? or something? Oh, and BTW, there's a What version is this, anyway? entry that has nothing to do with this question, and is pretty confusing. Since David is still AWOL, I guess I've taken over FAQ maintainence too. I rewrote most of the What version is this, anyway? entry, removing all the references to the 'recent' (2000 April) switch to setup.exe, and noting the difference between Cygwin the package and Cygwin the system. You can read it at: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_1.html#SEC5
Re: map mouse button 4 or 5 to button 2?
Jeffrey, Is it possible to have either button 4 or 5 (usually the forward/back buttons) send a 'button 2' signal (ie paste) to cygwin applications? Chad shows the best way for your purpose. As a note, you can swap mouse buttons via xmodmap command in UNIX like environments. For this case xmodmap -e pointer = 1 5 3 4 2 swaps button 2 and button 5. My new mouse/keyboard setup is MS Wireless Optical Desktop Elite (which includes a Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer 2.0), and I'm running hm, not sure how to check my Cygwin version, it's probably ~4 months old ... on WinXP. The xmodmap way works well on Cygwin/X versions newer than release-22 (released on 2003-11-9). Takuma Murakami
Re: map mouse button 4 or 5 to button 2?
Just to confuse the issue further (sorry), can I map the right mouse button to CTRL+F9 ? JS. Jeffrey, Is it possible to have either button 4 or 5 (usually the forward/back buttons) send a 'button 2' signal (ie paste) to cygwin applications? Chad shows the best way for your purpose. As a note, you can swap mouse buttons via xmodmap command in UNIX like environments. For this case xmodmap -e pointer = 1 5 3 4 2 swaps button 2 and button 5. My new mouse/keyboard setup is MS Wireless Optical Desktop Elite (which includes a Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer 2.0), and I'm running hm, not sure how to check my Cygwin version, it's probably ~4 months old ... on WinXP. The xmodmap way works well on Cygwin/X versions newer than release-22 (released on 2003-11-9). Takuma Murakami _ Stay in touch with absent friends - get MSN Messenger http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger
Re: map mouse button 4 or 5 to button 2?
Just to confuse the issue further (sorry), can I map the right mouse button to CTRL+F9 ? I guess xmodmap cannot do such remapping. However there are some tools which achieve the remapping in Windows layer. Maybe there are some in UNIX layer too. Takuma Murakami
Re: map mouse button 4 or 5 to button 2?
Jeff, I just bought the same keyboard and mouse setup and ran into the same issue that you did. The key is to make the mouse wheel click map to something that the mouse driver does not intercept and prevent from being handled by the current application. The Switch Application function is an intercepted function, whereas the old default AutoScroll is not intercepted, so the mouse wheel click is passed through to the current application. I am not sure there is much we can do to force the mouse driver to pass us the mouse wheel click, so you might just have to set it back to AutoScroll to get the desired functionality. Harold Jeffrey J. Gray wrote: Hi, Is it possible to have either button 4 or 5 (usually the forward/back buttons) send a 'button 2' signal (ie paste) to cygwin applications? The reasons for this are (1) since button 2 is on the wheel, pressing this button sometimes also accidentally sends a scroll signal making for sloppy paste operations and (2) I just upgraded my mouse, and in the new standard configuration, Windows intercepts button 2 and makes it a 'switch applications' signal. I need button 2 for Cygwin paste operations, so I'm anxious to restore this functionality to my cygwin. My new mouse/keyboard setup is MS Wireless Optical Desktop Elite (which includes a Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer 2.0), and I'm running hm, not sure how to check my Cygwin version, it's probably ~4 months old on WinXP. Thanks for the help, Jeff
map mouse button 4 or 5 to button 2?
Hi, Is it possible to have either button 4 or 5 (usually the forward/back buttons) send a 'button 2' signal (ie paste) to cygwin applications? The reasons for this are (1) since button 2 is on the wheel, pressing this button sometimes also accidentally sends a scroll signal making for sloppy paste operations and (2) I just upgraded my mouse, and in the new standard configuration, Windows intercepts button 2 and makes it a 'switch applications' signal. I need button 2 for Cygwin paste operations, so I'm anxious to restore this functionality to my cygwin. My new mouse/keyboard setup is MS Wireless Optical Desktop Elite (which includes a Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer 2.0), and I'm running hm, not sure how to check my Cygwin version, it's probably ~4 months old on WinXP. Thanks for the help, Jeff
Checking Cygwin version (FAQ Alert!) (Was Re: map mouse button 4 or 5 to button 2?)
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Jeffrey J. Gray wrote: [snip] ... and I'm running hm, not sure how to check my Cygwin version, it's probably ~4 months old on WinXP. Jeff, Just like on any Unix system, uname -srv will return the kernel (in Cygwin's case, cygwin1.dll) version. On Cygwin, you can also use cygcheck -srv to get detailed information about your system (essential for diagnosing Cygwin problems, see http://cygwin.com/problems.html), or cygcheck -cd to just get the versions of all installed packages (or omit the -d flag to also check them for integrity). If you post the output of either cygcheck -srv or cygcheck -cd, please *attach* it to your message, rather than including it inline. Igor P.S. I was surprised that this isn't in the FAQ. David, could you please add this, under the heading What version of Cygwin do I have? or something? Oh, and BTW, there's a What version is this, anyway? entry that has nothing to do with this question, and is pretty confusing. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster. -- Patrick Naughton
