Re: mouse click from keyboard button
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 01:36:33 +0200, Kalle Hasselström wrote:
> My laptop's built-in mouse only has two buttons.
You're lucky, my laptop has only one button. :(
> I'd like to use a keyboard key to generate middle button clicks
> (specifically, I'd like to use the caps lock key).
> Can this be done, and if so, how?
Yes, but this depends on your laptop. On my Titanium, I had to add
the following lines to /etc/sysctl.conf:
dev.mac_hid.mouse_button_emulation = 1
dev.mac_hid.mouse_button2_keycode = 96
dev.mac_hid.mouse_button3_keycode = 56
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