Mouse features?

[Andrew Farris]

On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 18:55 -0500, Roy Smith wrote:
> Steve wrote:
> > On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:27:32 +0100, Roy Smith <rasmith1959 at gmail.com>  
> > wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
> >>     
> >>> 08/07/2009 09:38 AM, Roy Smith:
> >>>
> >>>       
> >>>>>   Please get a Logitech mouse. They do not say they work on Linux but
> >>>>> they all DO!
> >>>>>
> >>>>>           
> >>>> Well the basic functions of this mouse work just fine, the left and
> >>>> right buttons along with the scroll wheel do just as they're expected  
> >>>> to
> >>>> do.  It's just that there are 2 additional buttons that don't seem to
> >>>> work in all the programs that I use.
> >>>>
> >>>>         
> >>> Yes, each program has it's way to interpret mouse events.
> >>> all you will have to do is configuring, not writting "your
> >>> own program".
> >>>
> >>>       
> >> Ok, so if writing my own program isn't necessary, then please tell me
> >> how I can get Thunderbird to advance to the next unread message when I
> >> click the left side button of the mouse...and mark a thread as read when
> >> I click the right side button.  In the intellipoint software I could
> >> enable customizations for specific programs.  So what I did there was
> >> enabled it for TBird and set the left button to simulate pressing the
> >> 'n' key on the keyboard, and the right button to simulate pressing the
> >> 't' key.  I've been through the menus of Thunderbird many times and I
> >> still have yet to find a place where I can specify the keyboard
> >> shortcuts for the program, and that goes for both Linux or Windows
> >> versions...
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > Does this  
> > http://sillent.blogspot.com/2006/12/mouse-microsoft-intellimouse-explorer.html  
> > offer any inspiration?
> >   
> 
> Aha!!!  Now that looks promising, just wish I knew whatever language
> that was in (Spanish maybe?) so I could understand exactly what was
> written.  So now let's see how badly I can screw up my /etc/xorg.conf
> file.  ;-)

maybe this will help? 

http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=y&u=http%3A%2F%
2Fsillent.blogspot.com%2F2006%2F12%
2Fmouse-microsoft-intellimouse-explorer.html&sl=auto&tl=en&history_state0= 

:)

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Andrew
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