From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: fedora doesn't provide a way to emulate a second and third mouse-butten when used with a one-button mouse. in yellowdoglinux this is done either by sudo /sbin/sysctl -w dev.mac_hid.mouse_button3_keycode=xxx (doesn't work on (fedora) i386) or editing /etc/sysconfig/mouse-emulation (file doesn't exist in fedora) setting Emulate3Buttons in the Xorg.conf only provides the option to emulate the third button on a two button mouse, by pressing both at the same time. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install fedora with a one-button-mouse 2. try to use X/Gnome/whatever Actual Results: second and third mouse-button can't be emulated using the keyboard, when using a one-button-mouse Expected Results: fedora provides a way to configure keys which emulate the second and third mouse-button Additional info:
This sounds more architecture specific to me than being an all architecture problem. While it may be physically possible to use a Macintosh mouse on non-Mac hardware, I'm not sure that is a hardware combination that is sensible to support. It does make sense to do this for PPC however if it is a problem on PPC. Changed platform to PPC. I assume this is a configuration problem rather than a driver or X server problem, so I'm reassigning the bug to our config tool for mice - system-config-mouse.
mac isn't currently a supported fedora platform I'm aware of the ability to use mac_hid, deferring until we get close to a release out the door.
I personally don't care much about macs, but DEFERRED is a poor resolution. Why not keep the bug open and tracked by the Mac blocker tracker?
no, i'm not filing this as a mac bug! i'm using a one button mouse on an intel laptop, and thats the problem! if it was a mac i would be able to do the mac_hid thing....
Very well, but Paul has indicated this issue is being deferred for future consideration, so I'm setting the status back to DEFERRED as Paul had it. This is a very low impact issue, as there are not going to be very many users using a Mac mouse on an Intel box. I definitely do not consider it something that we officially support, but if it happens to work, that's fine. When Paul is ready to investigate this issue during our development cycle, he will change the status back to ASSIGNED. In the mean time, if someone has patches to implement the necessary bits to make this work, please go ahead and attach them to the report. Thanks in advance. Thanks for clarifying the usage case.
I work in a printing company. with alot of macs and a few pcs. on Friday i had to give my mouse away and the only spare i had was a one button mac mouse. i went to system-config-mouse to set it up and it wasnt an option. i also use a mac keyboard which ive come to prefer over a PC one. so while it may be a rae occurunce it does occur and i feel it would be useful to have it as an option. now im off to find a way to map some buttons for middle and right click.