On Wednesday 30 April 2003 10:32, William W. Austin wrote: > HOWEVER, this is an 8-button mouse. > > I RTFM'ed last night but so far haven't found anything really useful on > getting the other buttons recognized and/or working under X. Also to be > honest, I haven't seen any apps that are crying out for more than the usual > number of buttons plus scrolling wheel. > > Any pointers on HOWTO's on this one (and suggestions for uses on the > buttons) would be greatly appreciated. I'm using KDE desktop at the moment > (haven't had any luck getting e17 working on RH 9 so far) and am not > sufficiently expert in kde to know (and haven't found anything on it so > far) how *it* deals with additional buttons either. (had old logitech 4 > button / no scroll-wheel mouse working under e16: same tricks do not appear > to work now... sigh.) > > Thanks in advance The buttons to the front and rear of the wheel work w/out any extra config. They emulate a wheel scroll up and down at the mouse, and send the same exact signal, making them software independent. These are the only buttons I use on the mouse, aside from the wheel itself. The two side buttons can be configured, but not much software will take advantage of them. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE http://geek.j2solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating
