Re: 3 button mouse
> ] I just bought a new 3 button mouse for the convenience of better cut and
> ] paste, and find that I can't seem to make it work.
Fabio Olive leite:
> Most likely your mouse is (like mine) a dual mode mouse. Check if it
> doesn't have "PC" and "MS" written somewhere around the ball hole. For
> sometime this kind of mouse came with a nice switch below it that would
> select the mode, but then god-knows-why they changed it
Actually, I think there have always been the two approaches. I remember the
`hold down the mouse' idiocy from at least the early nineties.
The solution is to check the mouse in the shop before buying it.
> to an "insanely great" approach: the mouse defaults to micro$oft mode,
> which uses only two buttons (don't ask); if you want it to work in
> MouseSystems mode, which has three buttons, you have to turn on your PC
> holding the left mouse button down.
Come to think of it, this isn't nearly as ridiculous in Linux as it is in
DOS/Windows.
Jiri
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