Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 10:30:47 EST From: nation@rocket.sanders.com (Robert Nation) Message-Id: <9212141530.AA18078@rocket.sanders.com> Subject: # button mouse with Linux/X
Maybe this will help you:
Here's how I got my three button microsoft-compatible mouse working
in 3 button mode:
1. Change the mouse type to mousesystems in xconfig
Mousesystems "/dev/ttys1"
BaudRate 1200
# SampleRate 150
# Emulate3Buttons
2. Compile this program, and call it /usr/bin/mouse3:
#include <assert.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <linux/termios.h>
void main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int fd;
int val;
if(argc!=2)
{
printf("Usage: mouse3 device\n");
exit(1);
}
assert(fd=open(argv[1],O_RDWR|O_NDELAY));
val=0;
ioctl(fd,TIOCMSET,&val);
}
3. Add this lines to /usr/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc:
xterm -geometry 80x34+0+0 -C -T Console -e /bin/bash&
/usr/bin/mouse3 /dev/ttys1 <----this is the addtition
exec twm
----> (Additional note: call it early, as the first program)
4. Startx.
I really don't know quite why it works, but why complain? It seems that
the microsoft 3 button mouse looks like a mousesystems mouse when its in
3 button mode. Also to switch it to three button mode, you need to do
whatever the mouse3 program does, but you have to do it after X gets
started, since it seems that X's startup code undoes the effect required
to get into 3 button mode.
----> (Additional note: At the beginning of the first movement, the mouse
get crazy, but it's normal).
Regards,
Rob Nation
Lockheed-Sanders