Changing Default Button emul. F10/F11

[Rick Thomas]

The mouse-emulation stuff is great but it only partly solves my 
problem...

I have an ADB Kensington "Turbomouse" trackball with two buttons.  
I don't want to use it with X-windows (the old PowerMac 6500 I've 
got it on doesn't have enough RAM to do that...) I just want to use 
it with the text mode virtual console software and with the gpm 
text mode "cut and paste" utility.

The "ADB 1+ mouse" setting with 3-button mouse emulation turned on 
works OK using it as a one-button mouse -- the left button on the 
Turbomouse acts as the 1st mouse button.  The right button on the 
Turbomouse is dead, and F10 and F11 act as the 2nd and 3rd mouse 
buttons.  I'd like to have the right button on the Turbomouse be 
live and either act as button 2 or button 3 (ideally, 
configurable -- so I can experiment and find out what works best 
for me!)

I've heard a rumor that the Kensington ADB mouse-equivalents use a 
proprietary protocol for button clicks past the first mouse 
button.  Is this what's causing the problem?  Or is there somewhere 
all of this is documented and I've just not found it yet?

Thanks!

Rick


On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 08:44 PM, Dan Burcaw wrote:

> YDL 3 moved the configuration of these keys out of /etc/sysconfig/mouse
> now that that file is written by a Red Hat tool, and now our own custom
> installer.  Please see the new /etc/sysconfig/mouse-emulation which
> should look familiar. :)
>
> -Dan
>
> On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 17:46, Kevin Berrien wrote:
>> Ok, so I switched from Mandrake to YDL 3 on my Wallstreet PB, very
>> impressed.  For an ole RH guy this is nice... now I actually like 
>> my Mac.
>>
>> However, the default button emulation is F10/F11.  I find that 
>> very annoying,
>> not to mention I'm a lefty.  I've reviewed the how-to's, scoured 
>> the list
>> archives on the subject.  Adjustments to /etc/sysconfig/mouse do 
>> not work,
>> any suggestions.  I'll be happy with EMU_BUT2 as the OPTION key.
>>
>> TIA!
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