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jaeger63
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 Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 9:00 pm Post subject: Mouse Emulation on iMac G5 |
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The PPC FAQ describes how to enable mouse emulation to emulate middle and right mouse buttons in sysctl.conf. But this requires setting kernel configuration parameters that don't seem to be available in PPC64.
Is there a way to enable 2 and 3-button mouse emulation with a PPC64 kernel? If so, how? |
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JoseJX
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jaeger63
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| Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 12:39 am Post subject: |
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This is not exactly a solution, but I've worked out a way to emulate the buttons in X, at least.
I did it by putting these lines in $HOME/.Xmodmap:
| Code: | keycode 95 = Pointer_Button2 Pointer_Drag2
keycode 96 = Pointer_Button3 Pointer_Drag3
keycode 113 = Mode_switch Pointer_EnableKeys
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For my keyboard, at least, I can enable the mousekey by hitting <shift><right-alt> ( that is keycode 113). Then F11 (keycode 95) works as the middle button and F12 (keycode 96) works as the right mouse button. You can assign these functions to any other keys you like, just use xev to determine the keycodes for the keys you want to use.
Obviously this will only work for applications running under X.
By the way, I tried mouseemu 0.15, but it didn't work - it just logged an unkown IOCTL error on startup and had no effect. This is on a ppc64 kernel with vanilla-sources-2.6.17-rc3. |
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