middle mouse in fvwm

["Karl M. Hegbloom" <karlheg@bittersweet.or.us>]

>>>>> "br00031" == br00031  <br00031@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu> writes:

    br00031> My middle mouse button, which displays the menu from
    br00031> iconifiy to exit, does not work correctly.  I cannot move
    br00031> the mouse down the menu.  I am forced to use the curser
    br00031> keys.  Any movement of the mouse causes the menu to
    br00031> disapear.  Is there anyway to fix this.  I am using a
    br00031> logitech mouse man 3button serial version mouse.  I did
    br00031> not find anything relating to mouse sensitivy in either
    br00031> system.fvwmrc, or .xinitrc.  There is no manual page for
    br00031> mouse, and find / -name mouse showed nothing.  The other
    br00031> buttons seem to work correctly.  Everything on my system
    br00031> is from "stable". Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks

 Mine works fine.  You have to make sure that in the XF86config file
it's not set for chord middle or emulate three buttons, and that the
mouse type is set for Mouse Systems.  Then you've got to be sure that
your mouse is switched to the right setting also.

 I have a three button "Reveal" brand mouse.  It's got a switch on the
bottom, much like many other brands do; set to 'pc' for MouseSystems
compatibility, or to 'ms' for MicroSloth compatibility.

 Mine is set to 'pc'.  I also had to set the command line in my
/etc/rc.d file that starts gpm so that it too runs in MouseSystems
mode for correct three button operation.

 Here's the Relevant Portion of my /etc/XF86Config file, which was
generated by the 'xf86config' script that comes with Slackware Linux.
I believe that 'xf86config' gives an option for the Logitech mice.

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# **********************************************************************
# Pointer section
# **********************************************************************

Section "Pointer"
    Protocol    "MouseSystems"
    Device      "/dev/mouse"

# When using XQUEUE, comment out the above two lines, and uncomment
# the following line.

#    Protocol	"Xqueue"

# Baudrate and SampleRate are only for some Logitech mice

#    BaudRate	9600
#    SampleRate	150

# Emulate3Buttons is an option for 2-button Microsoft mice
# Emulate3Timeout is the timeout in milliseconds (default is 50ms)

#    Emulate3Buttons
#    Emulate3Timeout    50

# ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice

#    ChordMiddle

EndSection
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