mouse weirdness [and other strange tales]

[Rich Edelman]

On Monday 15 April 2002 10:27 am, Brian Densmore wrote:
> Well, I am installing gentoo at home. The latest build has some problems
> if you take the
> "fast" option [some files and directories missing, like the timezone
> files]. So far though
> it looks good, good enough that I may abandon my new distro idea and
> repackage gentoo.
Good luck with Gentoo. Not that it's hard or anything, just a little involved. 
I've been running that for a while now, and haven't had any problems. My 
install method: compile everything. Takes a while, but oh well. Portage 
definitely is nice. :)  If you need any help with things, I've installed 
Gentoo on a number of machines, so should be able to help you out.

> I'll post my take on KDE 3 when I get it running tonight tomorrow.
Ooooh KDE 3, my new love. Especially with Mosfet's liquid widgets (to get 
those with Gentoo: emerge mosfet-liquid-widgets, takes only a couple of 
minutes). KDE 3 does have some problems, however. Nothing really big. Every 
now and then the splash screen crashes, oh well.  There's some other slightly 
annoying things, but it'll all be fixed for 3.1 I'm sure.

On another note, but relating to the mouse wierdness... I have an MS 
IntelliMouse Explorer, hooked up via the PS/2 port. Until recently, never 
could get all the buttons to work. I'm told X only supports up to 5 buttons 
on mice, but that's no longer true, for in the docs (you do read those 
sometimes, right?) they give a valid configuration for using all 7 buttons on 
the IntelliMouse Explorer. Only thing I found wrong with this is no matter 
which buttons you give to the ZAxisMapping option, it always uses buttons 4 
and 5, so a simple xmodmap -e "pointer=1 2 3 6 7 4 5" to remap the buttons 
works fine. 

Rich