Re: One-Button iMac mouse
> > someone tried to do that a while back and I've provided that person
> > with a test binary to try out a particular solution. Haven't heard back
> > yet.
>
> If there is something to try and test I am really willing to do that. I
> can also read the code and change a few things, but I'm not so experienced
> in writing C code.
OK; I'll send the test binary by PM.
> > You can already specify alt and ctrl as the modifier keys that trigger
> > a middle or right button event for mouseemu, and that sort of works.
>
> But only if you press a key on the keyboard, not the mouse button, right?
Nope, that was for modifer+click emulation like in OS X.
> I don't get a keycode if I press the trackpad button on my iBook and
> mouseemu seems to work only with keycodes.
I forget what the magic incantation was, but there's a fake keycode
assigned to the mouse button just for this purpose.
> > X then gets to see a alt-middle or ctrl-right event because X keeps
> > track of the modifier state
>
> I guess there are very few applications using these combinations, so it
> should be not too annoying ;-)
It's in fact been quite annoying, that's how the debate about this hack
arose. Emulation with 'sticky' keycodes already works out of the box in
mouseemu.
Michael
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