Customizing the Mouse and Keyboard

This section describes the following customizations:

•Changing mouse button actions.

•The xmodmap client.

•Going mouseless.

•Customizing keyboard input.

Changing Mouse Button Actions

Normally, the mouse pointer buttons are mapped as follows:

Default Mouse Button Mapping

Button

Button on a 2-button mouse

Button on a 3-button Mouse

Number

 

 

Button 1

Left button

Left button

Button 2

Both buttons simultaneously

Middle button

Button 3

Right button

Right button

Button 4

 

Left and middle buttons

 

 

simultaneously

Button 5

 

Middle and right buttons

 

 

simultaneously

However, you can change these mappings. To generate buttons 4 and 5 on a three-button mouse, you must enable button chording as described later in this chapter.

Alternative Mouse Button Mappings

To press:

Left-Handed Mapping

OSF/Motif Mapping

2-button mouse

3-button mouse

2-button mouse

3-button mouse

Button 1

Right button

Right button

Left button

Left button

Button 2

Both buttons

Middle button

Right button

Middle button

 

simultaneously

 

 

 

Button 3

Left button

Left button

Both buttons

Right button

 

 

 

simultaneously

 

Button 4

 

Middle and right

 

Left and middle

 

 

buttons

 

buttons

 

 

simultaneously

 

simultaneously

Button 5

 

Middle and left

 

Right and middle

 

 

buttons

 

buttons

 

 

simultaneously

 

simultaneously

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