[ltp] Middle mouse button?

Richard Neill linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Sun, 06 Jan 2002 19:00:28 +0000



Ken Firestone wrote:


> 
> Erin,
> 
> 3 button mice have been the norm in the Unix world ever since the
> first Unix machine sprouted a rodent. Take a look at a Sun
> workstation. Depending on the window manager and/or application it can
> have many purposes. I use it (actually the left an right buttons
> together on my TP) to paste stuff. Also in Gnome, middle clicking on
> the desktop brings up a menu.
> 
> The scroll button for many mice is usable as both a scroll button, and
> as the middle mouse button.


Are you saying that you've managed to get the middle mouse button of the 
IBM trackpoint to work as a scroll button (like it does in Windows) ?
If so, how did you do it? I'd love to know as it's the only thing I miss 
about Win98.

Regards

Richard


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