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linux 9.0.19: Two-button mouse does not emulate middle button

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Wed Nov 14 12:58:36 2001

Message-Id: <200111141758.MAA07257@inky.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:58:34 -0500
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>

System name:		inky.mit.edu
Type and version:	i686 9.0.19 (with mkserv)
Display type:		XFree86 3.3.6a Mach64

Shell:			/afs/sipb/project/tcsh/tcsh
Window manager:		vtwm.gamma

What were you trying to do?
	Use the middle mouse button

What's wrong:
	Inky has a two-button mouse.  When I hold both mouse buttons together
	to simulate the third button, X gets confused.  It doesn't believe
	it's a middle-button press, but it doesn't believe it's a left-
	or right-button press either.  In neither case does the right thing
	happen (namely, I get my middle-button behavior).

	The 'Emulate3Buttons' selection is not turned on in XF86Config.

What should have happened:
	Emulate3Buttons should be on when necessary so I get a functioning mouse.

Please describe any relevant documentation references:
	X(7), XF86Config(5x)

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