mouse button mapping

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, dep wrote:
> well.
>
> fixing the DRI-D monitor problem will wait a bit, because it involves
> recompiling some kernel modules, sort of, to incorporate some ati code
> for the DRI-D registers. which means it will involve a fairly anguished
> day in which i predict things that did work will get broken, even if
> backed up and restored, and i imagine that for part of the time i'll be
> weeping for answers via the notebook machine. can't wait.
>
> but victory in a minor issue has become mine: i got xplanet with my
> nifty 19-meg moon map (thanks, nasa!) to again render realtime moon
> phases, updated hourly, to my screen background. i've done this since
> kde-1.0, and everytime it is a struggle to set up, partly because kde
> keeps changing config files and partly because the good people at
> xplanet keep changing command names. (i cheated -- i went to an earlier
> version, which does perfectly what i want done.)
>
> so i've set for today what i think is a modest task. i have a kensington
> expert mouse trackball. it has four buttons and is connected to the
> ps/2 socket. kensington are fine people who are very loyal to their
> customers, but they have not done whatever is necessary (or else
> hackers have not done whatever is necessary, i don't know which) to
> bring their dandy mouse software to linux. which means it's a complete
> crapshoot figuring out what the four buttons will do. for years, i've
> somehow managed to get it to work such as the two left buttons are
> mapped as lmb, the two right as rmb. this is fine with me. but this
> install, the bottom left is lmb, the bottom right is rmb, and the top
> two, left and right, are both mapped as center buttons. having grown
> accustomed to having two right and two left, which is very convenient
> depending on what i'm doing, having two of them act as the middle
> button is causing a world of inconvenience. i've never used the undo
> command so much in my life.
>
> now. somewhere hidden in the bowels of this suse-9.1 is a configuration
> file that will allow me to put things right again. i have searched all
> over the drive for it. i cannot find it.
>
> anybody know what i can edit to tame my mouse again?

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=kensington%20expert%20mouse%20&safe=off&as_ugroup=*linux*&lr=&num=50&hl=en

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