Mouse - third button emulation

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Mouse - third button emulation
started by: hillside

Posted by hillside on Jan. 26 2007,04:30

I can't say exactly when it happened, but my mouse third button emulation has stopped working. Now, when I click both buttons at the same time, it acts like a right click. This may have happened when I upgraded my 3.1 frugal install to 3.2, but I'm not really sure when I lost it.

DSL recognizes my mouse and everything works properly except for the emulation.

I haven't been able to find anything that would point me in the right direction. Any ideas?

Thanks.

Posted by hillside on Jan. 26 2007,18:50

It seems whenever I ask for help, the lightbulb suddenly comes on and I start looking like Homer Simpson.

The proper syntax for .xserverrc for my system is:

exec /usr/bin/X11/Xvesa -2button -mouse /dev/psaux -screen 1280x1024x32 -shadow -nolisten tcp -I &>/dev/null

There may be other ways to skin this cat, but this works for me. I now have tabs and cut and paste back again.

I think part of my problem is I've been experimenting too much. I've run dsl from the live CD, as a hard drive install, as frugal, as frugal with persistence, and from a pen drive. Each method has it's own little secrets that have to be discovered.

So far persistent frugal is my favorite way of doing things. It seems to offer the best of all worlds.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Jan. 26 2007,21:19

or you could've ran xsetup

Posted by hillside on Jan. 27 2007,14:20

xsetup -- yeah. I think I've broken some of those scripts. I was opening them up and playing around some to see how things worked and I may have not been "gentle" enough or careful enough. I think it's about time for me to wipe the frugal install that I have and reinstall the whole ball of wax.

I've really enjoyed poking around to see how things work. My goal is to get good enough at this as some of you experts. Although that will be a race with time. At my age you don't learn as quickly as some.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Jan. 27 2007,19:14

In a frugal, you shouldn't have to reinstall everything, its made to be virtually unbreakable. If you saved your scripts in some backup, you could just copy the originals from /KNOPPIX/ (or remove them from your backup)