one button mac mouse
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I recently came into possession of a one button usb mac mouse circa 2002-2003 (many people hate these and just throw them away), I got it for free, laughed at first and plugged it in for the hell of it.
I did a little bit of work with the mouse in GIMP and found it to be a LOT smoother than anyother mouse I have ever used, my lines come out they way that I want them to. Whether it is because I'm not pressing on one side or because the skate for the mouse is a complete oval all around the bottom, I don't know and don't care. I'm loving the thing.
My problem is that I need to set the thing up so that I can use modifier keys like "super" or "ctrl" to do a right mouse click. How would I go about doing this under xorg with the "emulate 3 buttons function"??
I've been searching high and low for an answer and cannot find one, all that I find are people saying that it can be done or mentioning some sort of tool that comes with "Darwin" or "Yellowdog," please help.
It would be even nicer if I could use a modifier to scroll with the mouse too!
Thanks everyone!!
thanks but
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It looks like that is Parallels specific. The ctrl+shift+click method doesn't work 
hmmmm. . . any other ideas? Places that I can search??
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Hmm
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Hmm, I take it that you have a Mac MOUSE but not a Mac KEYBOARD? Because the Mac keyboard has an additional key, command, that is the equivalent of the right-click (for those rare occasions when you want to do things the "old fashioned" way on an Apple).
I'm sorry, I'm still too new to the Apple world to be able to offer much help
Perhaps some other folks will respond...
Jon
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From my experience with macs
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From my experience with macs (I've hooked up a pc usb keyboard to a debianPPC blue and white mac tower), the *ctrl* on a pc computer will be ctrl on the mac, the *flag* key will be the alt/option key and the *alt* key will be the cloverleaf key. They do it straight down the line by key placement.
I think that it would be no different with a pc linux distro. In fact when you hook up a mac keyboard to the debianPPC tower, the "help" key is the insert key. Linux maps them all the same, it seems, even with the mac keyboard driver. I had to add a shortcut inside of XFCE for the eject button to work on the keyboard, for instance.
I need someone to point me in the right direction, otherwise I will have to put together a nasty hack with mapping the keys. . . 32 and 115 with sysctl.conf, getting right up inside of the devices configuration and I really don't want to do this.
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
- Lord Byron
AMD Athlon 64 3700 (1MiB L2) 2GiB DDR400 ATI X850XT
2x 160GB HDs / 1x 40GB HD / 1x USB2.0 500GB HD
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*UPDATE*
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There is a daemon called mouseemu:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-english/2005/02/msg00001.html
Once I work out how to use it and set it up properly, I will do a tutorial on it for the website.
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
- Lord Byron
AMD Athlon 64 3700 (1MiB L2) 2GiB DDR400 ATI X850XT
2x 160GB HDs / 1x 40GB HD / 1x USB2.0 500GB HD
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Try This
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Inaneframe, I've been using Mepis and Linux for quite a while, but recently I have been getting used to my new Macbook Pro which has a trackpad and single-button mouse.
When I have been testing Linux in a virtual machine (Parallels), the suggestion is to use ctrl-shift to emulate the right-click. So I have to press the ctrl and shift keys down, then click the mouse. That's how I see the normal right-click context menus.
I don't know how/if you can emulate the middle button.
Jon
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