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From: howie@ivory.cc.columbia.edu (Howie Kaye)
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Subject: Re: X11
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Date: 31 May 91 20:22:22 GMT
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In article <1991May31.090550@dali.cc.gatech.edu> iansmith@dali.cc.gatech.edu  
(Ian Smith) writes:
>  In article <1991May29.151312.15680@serval.net.wsu.edu>,
>  hakimian@tek4.eecs.wsu.edu (Karl Hakimian - staff) writes:
>  |> I have mouseX running on a NeXT cube. Everything seems find except I
>  can't
>  |> figure out how to get the NeXT mouse to act like a three button mouse
>  instead
>  |> of a two button mouse. Does anyone have any idea?
>  You can't (with the current implementation). A process is snarfing
>  the NeXTStep events off the window server, shoving them down a pipe to
>  the the X server then dispatching them to X clients.  Until NeXTStep
>  supports generating a button three mouse event,you are pretty much
>  hosed... however...
>  
>  An adventurous soul might be able to hack the server source to do 
>  something like what the old HP's used to do, ie. hitting both buttons
>  together gives button 3.  I really don't like this solution much, but
>  it would work.  You could look in the dispatching code (look for a
>  giant switch statement somewhere in $(TOPDIR)/src/mit/server/ddx/next,
>  I can remeber the exact file).  I would prefer hacking the keycode
>  table
>  to lose a keycode and using that as a mouse button. 
>  
>  If I get a few free minutes, I post the diffs.
>  ian

If this is running under 2.0, and gotten from Columbia, than it has already  
been done.  Try hitting both mouse buttons.  It should generate a "middle"  
button event.

/howie