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Pathos:
Linux is supposed to be good for old hardware right?

Why the hell do certain apps require a middle mouse button ?

fluxbox tabs are useless without it and earlier this weekend I spent two hours typing up the output from ruby profiling because aterm needs a middle mouse button to copy text...

the middle button has not been around for that long and only 1 of my 4 computers has one.


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Refalm:
You can configure xorgcfg to let the LMB and RMB be interpreted as MMB.

Aloone_Jonez:
Mice with middle buttons have been around for a long time (I'd say at least 14 years but probably much longer), the Acorn computers we used at middle school all used them. I've been using three button mice with my last few PCs but I do admint they've become more popular recently with the scroll button doubling as a middle button.

Refalm:
I have lots of mouses here at home (some of em serial) that have no middle mouse button. Actually, the serial ones do have one, the old PS/2's don't :P

Aloone_Jonez:
I know English isn't your first language and I'm not meaning to mock but to educate, mice is the plural for mouse. Hell even people who have English as their first language mess this one up, it isn't obvious it's just one of the quirks of our language.

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