mouse weirdness [and other strange tales]
Rich Edelman
edelman at speedscript.com
Mon Apr 15 15:55:11 CDT 2002
On Monday 15 April 2002 10:27 am, Brian Densmore wrote:
> Well, I am installing gentoo at home. The latest build has some problems
> if you take the
> "fast" option [some files and directories missing, like the timezone
> files]. So far though
> it looks good, good enough that I may abandon my new distro idea and
> repackage gentoo.
Good luck with Gentoo. Not that it's hard or anything, just a little involved.
I've been running that for a while now, and haven't had any problems. My
install method: compile everything. Takes a while, but oh well. Portage
definitely is nice. :) If you need any help with things, I've installed
Gentoo on a number of machines, so should be able to help you out.
> I'll post my take on KDE 3 when I get it running tonight tomorrow.
Ooooh KDE 3, my new love. Especially with Mosfet's liquid widgets (to get
those with Gentoo: emerge mosfet-liquid-widgets, takes only a couple of
minutes). KDE 3 does have some problems, however. Nothing really big. Every
now and then the splash screen crashes, oh well. There's some other slightly
annoying things, but it'll all be fixed for 3.1 I'm sure.
On another note, but relating to the mouse wierdness... I have an MS
IntelliMouse Explorer, hooked up via the PS/2 port. Until recently, never
could get all the buttons to work. I'm told X only supports up to 5 buttons
on mice, but that's no longer true, for in the docs (you do read those
sometimes, right?) they give a valid configuration for using all 7 buttons on
the IntelliMouse Explorer. Only thing I found wrong with this is no matter
which buttons you give to the ZAxisMapping option, it always uses buttons 4
and 5, so a simple xmodmap -e "pointer=1 2 3 6 7 4 5" to remap the buttons
works fine.
Rich
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