Re: Mapping a keyboard key to mouse button 4 or 5.

xbut does this with button1-3. You have edit the source to mae it work
with 4-5.

I don't have time to spare to fix it right now (I am trying to release
1.0 of another program). In a few weeks or so..... ;)


	http://www.sandklef.com/xbut/


Best regards, Henrik


On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 02:02, Hip Hip Hooray wrote:
> Hello Xperts,
> 
> I have a 3-button trackball and like the EmulateWheel
> option, but if I do
> 
>   Option   "EmulateWheel"   "true"
>   Option   "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
> 
> then the middle button can't be used for any purpose
> other than toggling the wheel emulation when it's
> held.
> 
> If I hold shift and press num lock, then I can use the
> numeric keypad to generate mouse clicks, but you can
> only generate button 1, button 2, and button 3 events.
> 
> I would like to be able to put something in my
> .Xmodmap (or whatever) so that there is keyboard key
> that emulates mouse button 4. That way, I can put
> 
>   Option   "EmulateWheelButton" "4"
> 
> into my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 so that when I press and
> hold my keyboard key that does button 4, I can move
> the trackball wheel up and down to do scrolling in
> applications like Mozilla.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
> 
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