[Techtalk] MouseClick Ctrl-W

[Conor Daly]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 05:13:19PM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Andrew thought:
> Hi All,
> 
> 	I have a mouse button that does little. I would like to make it a close 
> window button (ctrl-w).
> 	I had one on my Mac for almost a decade. I miss this it a lot.
> 	How do I go about setting this up? 
> 	It is my hope this is a straight forward process and yet another reason why 
> Linux is superior, in that no special program needs to be purchased???
> 	Mndrk 8.2. USB Kensington MouseWorks 4 button & wheel.
> 	KDE is primary desktop. The pointer focus is default and works just fine.

Two things you need to do:

Run 'xev' in a terminal and see if it detects a 4th button click.  If it
does, X is receiving the mouse clicks.

Under GNOME (KDE probably has something similar) there's a "shortcuts"
option in the config app.  This has a "capture" facility so you can choose
'ctrl W' and "capture" a 4th button click to make the association.

Conor
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