On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 03:00:51AM -0700, Jamie Zawinski wrote: > Hi, > > I need to have my system set up so that all three buttons on the mouse > are mapped to button 1, under X. This can't be done with xmodmap (the > server returns an X error) but it *can* be done using gpm, after > patching it: all that is needed is to prevent gpm from *refusing* to do > this; after that, it works fine. An odd use. > I understand that Debian already ships a patched version of gpm that > allows this (though I'm using Red Hat 7.2.) Actually, the Debian gpm handles button re-mapping in a rather different manner, but yes, it should work. The patch is one that I plan on sending over when I have the time to get Debian's gpm updated to the current version. > > I need to re-map all three buttons to one because it's a kiosk with a > trackball, and the customers are confused about which button to use, so > I just want to make all three physical buttons behave as a left button > (and it's way easier to do this in software than hardware...) Very interesting, what sort of software is on the kiosk? Zephaniah E. Hull. > > -- > Jamie Zawinski > jwz@xxxxxxx http://www.jwz.org/ > jwz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.dnalounge.com/ > _______________________________________________ > gpm mailing list > gpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linux.it/listinfo/gpm -- 1024D/E65A7801 Zephaniah E. Hull <warp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 92ED 94E4 B1E6 3624 226D 5727 4453 008B E65A 7801 CCs of replies from mailing lists are requested. Stubborness will get you where self-esteem won't let you go. -- Queen Of Swords in the SDM.
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