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Old 11-28-2004, 04:25 PM   #1
Ephracis
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Three-button-mouse is max?


I am just wondering if a mouse with three buttons is max (without that scroll-up and scroll-down counts as buttons)? Does Linux support a fourth and fifth (and so on) button? If not, is it the kernel that should take care of this?
 
Old 11-28-2004, 04:29 PM   #2
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x can cotrol them, using xmodmap and the ZAxisMapping option in your xorg.conf or XF86Config personally i've never had a use to use the 6th and 7th buttons on my mouse, but i do need to use "buttons" 4 and 5 for the scroll wheel.
 
Old 11-29-2004, 02:37 AM   #3
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Linux can handle all your buttons. But your applications probably can't. Yet, those "useless" buttons can be assigned actions or key-combinations.

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