Mouse button emulation [was: Re: sounder 8 install report]

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 05:07:22PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> ><quote who="Martin Pitt">
> >
> >> None at the moment. It would be great if we provided a default, but
> >> which keys should be sacrificed for the mouse buttons?
> >
> >I have always used Fn-Ctrl and Fn-Alt as my mouse keys, with this little
> >snippet from /etc/sysctl.conf:
> >
> >  dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation = 1
> >  dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode = 97
> >  dev/mac_hid/mouse_button3_keycode = 100
> 
> ... which is also not configured by default on Ubuntu.
> 
> What I'm trying to get is someone on the project to say "F10/F11 is
> going to be middle/right mouse" or "FnCtrl/FnAlt ..." or anything.  You
> need middle and right mouse click to exist out of the box for Powerbook
> users.

I'm happy to declare Fn-Ctrl to be the middle button and Fn-Alt to be
the right button; they're the least intrusive options I've heard by a
long way. Taking the bug.

-- 
Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]