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My mouse has a fancy wheel and buttons. Can I use them in FreeBSD?

Frequently Asked Questions for FreeBSD 2.X, 3.X and 4.X
The answer is, unfortunately, ''It depends''. These mice with additional features require specialized driver in most cases. Unless the mouse device driver or the user program has specific support for the mouse, it will act just like a standard two, or three button mouse.
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Frequently Asked Questions for FreeBSD 5.X and 6.X
The answer is, unfortunately, “It depends”. These mice with additional features require specialized driver in most cases. Unless the mouse device driver or the user program has specific support for the mouse, it will act just like a standard two, or three button mouse.
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Frequently Asked Questions for FreeBSD 2.X, 3.X and 4.X
The answer is, unfortunately, ''It depends''. These mice with additional features require specialized driver in most cases. U nless the mouse device driver or the user program has specific support for the mouse, it will act just like a standard two, or three button mouse.
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My mouse has a fancy wheel. Can I use it in X?

FreeBSD Documentation - Chapter 11 The X Window System and V...
Yes. But you need to customize X client programs. See Colas Nahaboo's web page (http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/) . The imwheel program works by translating mouse button 4 and mouse button 5 events into key events. Thus, you have to get the mouse driver to translate mouse wheel events to button 4 and 5 events. There are two ways of doing this, the first way is to have moused(8) do the translation. The second way is for the X server itself to do the event translation.
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Can I use a wheel mouse in the program?

Schedule-HR Software Technologies. - Frequently Asked Questi...
Yes! Schedule-HR will work with a wheel mouse; just make sure you install the software that was provided with your mouse.
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What are the very small buttons on either side of the steering wheel for?

Volkswagen Touareg Frequently-Asked Questions
The small button on the left side toggles the lights in the steering wheel. The button on the right toggles the steering wheel heat, if the vehicle is so equipped. When turned on, the steering wheel heater will maintain the steering wheel at 77 degrees F.
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How do I set up the mouse buttons for left-handed use?

tinyX Window System Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) List
Thanks to "ulisses" for suggesting this question for the FAQ, and providing some of the information given.) This depends on how many buttons your mouse has. If it has two or three, I have an answer. If it has more than three, and/or a wheel, I'd appreciate submissions from lefties with such mice who have gotten them reconfigured. To have the pointer buttons remapped for all of your X sessions, add the following line to your $HOME/.
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How do I use the mouse scroll wheel in KDE?

Chapter 6. The desktop
Mouse wheel support comes with Qt™ 2.0 and above, so KDE based on that will automatically support the use of the mouse scroll wheel if your system is configured correctly. Check that your X-Server settings support the use of a scrollwheel if it is not working.
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I want to use the steering wheel buttons. How?

Angry Kitchen Appliances: Saab 9-5 Audio FAQ
The buttons in the steering wheel is made from six/eight switches and seven/nine resistors connected in series. The switches connects the points between the resistors to a common wire. A seventh/tenth switch connects over all resistors and is used for the horn. Note that four wires connect the steering wheel to the instrument panel wireing. Two of them are for the AIRBAG. Do NOT connect test instruments to the airbag wires! The switch/resistor network is connected to the SID.
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My mouse has only two buttons. Is there a way to use XPCE for me?

Luca's XPCE programming FAQ
If you have 2 buttons, you might try the resources: Pce.PopupGesture.button: left Pce.PopupGesture.modifier: c which, in theory would let you have the menu's using Control-left button. Bit annoying I guess, but better then nothing :-) long as the code doesn't explicitely assign buttons to gestures you can play this trick with all of the gestures. Yes, with the exception of minor things that cannot be emulated in a sensible way.
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How to I get the mouse wheel to work?

UT Physics Linux FAQ
Support for the Microsoft Intellimouse is enabled in our X Windows setup by default; however, you must configure a few extra options in your ~/.Xdefaults file in order to get it to work with some applications (such as Netscape). You can find the text to be added on the Colas Nahaboo X mouse wheel scroll page. Simply copy the text for the application program(s) you require, paste it into your ~/.
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When I use the mouse wheel the map gets distorted. Why ?

Electoral College Calculator - version 2.2
This seems to be caused by a bug in Internet Explorer. The only solution I have found is to not use the mouse wheel.
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How can I configure VirtuaWin to use the wheel mouse to change desktops?

VirtuaWin - Virtual Desktops for Windows
The short answer is you can't. A deliberate design decision has been made to not introduce system hooks that can affect the reliability and responsiveness of both VirtuaWin and your computer. So VirtuaWin has no built in mouse wheel support.
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How can I use my wheel pins?

The SNOW BLOWER Shop, FAQ
Many models used these pins with round bails for securing the wheels to the axels. By moving the pins the machine could be made to freewheel. By moving one pin the machine could be rendered one wheel drive for easier handling in light duty. Many machines included this click pin feature. In this picture the pin passes through the wheel and the axle causing power to be transmitted.
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Why does scrolling with the mouse wheel not operate on some computers?

EADS N.V. - FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions
To date, there’s no “genuine” mouse wheel support in Geogrid products. Operation of the mouse wheel is purely coincidental, depending on the mouse driver installed. The next version of Geogrid (e.g. in the Top50 Version 5) will include scrolling with the mouse wheel and the “hand symbol” for moving the map.
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My mouse has a wheel, but it's not working, what's up with that?

Linux Gamers' FAQ
Make sure you're using the proper protocol for your mouse, most of the new optical mice for instance use the "IMPS/2" protocol. As defined by your XF86Config's InputDevice section. The instructions for the next answer won't work if the proper protocol isn't being used. It's pretty simple.
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How can I enable scrolling with the wheel of my mouse?

The Arch Linux FAQ
In most cases you only need to add Option ''ZAxisMapping'' ''4 5'' to the InputDevice section of your XF86Config. If that does not do the trick, try this6link for more resources and instructions. You upgraded to XFree 4.3.0 or higher. Run fc-cache as root to (re)build the font cache, and things should be fine. I'd recommend getting the latest self-installing driver package from http://www.nvidia.com and read the official README thoroughly as most problems are handled in it.
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How do I get the scroll wheel on my mouse to work?

Thinstation FAQ ::
Assuming the server and the server software application supports the scroll wheel, all you have to do is to change one line in the thinstation.conf:
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What is FreeBSD?

Frequently Asked Questions for FreeBSD 2.X, 3.X, 4.X and 5.X
Briefly, FreeBSD is a UNIX® like operating system for the i386™, IA-64, PC-98, Alpha/AXP, and UltraSPARC® platforms based on U.C. Berkeley's ''4.4BSD-Lite'' release, with some ''4.4BSD-Lite2'' enhancements. It is also based indirectly on William Jolitz's port of U.C. Berkeley's ''Net/2'' to the i386, known as ''386BSD'', though very little of the 386BSD code remains. A fuller description of what FreeBSD is and how it can work for you may be found on the FreeBSD home page.
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Will the wheel mouse or three button mice be supported?

Unofficial DiabloII.net Diablo II FAQ -- Page Five
Early in development, the mouse wheel was set to provide smooth zooming in and out of the game. However with the introduction of the 3d parallax effect this ability is broken. Literally; it's unworkable in 3D mode. Smooth zooming in and out might still work in software mode, but it is not set to be included.
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How do I get the wheel working on my mouse in X for scrolling?

Sorcerer FAQ
Try adding the following to .../XF86Config file (in the /etc/tree) in the mouse part of the "InputDevice" section:
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edit] Q) How do I set up a wheel mouse?

Slackware-FAQ - LQWiki
In X, a scroll wheel counts as three buttons - up is one, down is another. Clicking the wheel is a third button. You then just need to add these two lines under the mouse section (usually 'Identifier "Mouse1"' or something similar). For a 7 button mouse, you also need to create the file /etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap and put the following in it for the wheel to be mapped onto the right buttons:
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Can I scroll the outline pane with the mouse wheel?

This is a known bug in Tk that prevents this on Windows. The obvious Tk code causes a hard crash in the Python dll: it's the only time Leo has taken such a hard crash. The UniversalScrolling plugin is an attempt at a workaround. Scrolling with the mouse wheel may be possible on Linux. See the code in createTkTreeCanvas in leoTkinterFrame.py
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Q.C7- How can I swap mouse buttons? How do I get an XFree86 for Left-Handers?

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about XFree86
Q.D1- Part of the Displayed Image is Wrapping-around or is Duplicated on the Other Side of the Screen
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What do I do if I have problems with Emacs and my mouse buttons?

GNU Emacs FAQ for Windows
You can use either a two- or three-button mouse with Emacs. If you have trouble with either of these working with Emacs, see below.
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