lrutled wrote:
> Howdy,
> I sent the following to the misc list, but no replies.
>
> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 22:34:01 -0500
> From: linc <lrutled@columbus.rr.com>
> To: misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: xmodmap problem in X.org on snapshot
> Message-ID: <20050417223401.33b32882.lrutled@columbus.rr.com >
>
> Howdy,
>
> Under 3.6 I was able to get middle- and right- click events from my F10
> and F11 keys respectively. I have figured out that xmodmap is working,
> but the mouse click assignment doesn't seem to have any meaning.
>
> The assignment I was using was:
> keycode 76 = Pointer_Button2 Pointer_Drag2
> keycode 95 = Pointer_Button3 Pointer_Drag3
>

I'm not sure I understand you correctly. You mean that under 3.6 this
was actually doing something useful without any other modification? What
exactly ? Although there's a keysym called Pointer_Button2, it does not
emulate the mouse button 2 automagically. This is still seen by
application as a _key_ press, unless you enable "mouse keys" in XKB.

> Now I believe from reading man X and man xmodmap, that my F10 key,
> keycode 76, should make a middle click event, and shift-F10 should make
> a drag event. But there is no response at all when I do so.
>
use for instance:

xmodmap -e "keysym Num_Lock = Num_Lock Pointer_EnableKeys"

to make Shift+NumLock activate the mouse keys feature.

See for example <http://www.fvwm.org/documentation/faq/#3.5> for more
information on this feature.
--
Matthieu Herrb