I want to emulate middle mouse button clicks with a spare key on my
keyboard. I used to do it with one of my old laptops but I can't
remember how. I can't find anything useful on Google; the only thing
that looked like what I wanted was xrebind, but that didn't work for me.

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Tony Houghton wrote:
> I want to emulate middle mouse button clicks with a spare key on my
> keyboard. I used to do it with one of my old laptops but I can't
> remember how. I can't find anything useful on Google; the only thing
> that looked like what I wanted was xrebind, but that didn't work for me.

xmodmap?

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On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:07:52 +0100
Tony Houghton  wrote:

> I want to emulate middle mouse button clicks with a spare key on my
> keyboard. I used to do it with one of my old laptops but I can't
> remember how. I can't find anything useful on Google; the only thing
> that looked like what I wanted was xrebind, but that didn't work for me.

For the record I remembered the name of the utility I used before:
evrouter. Its web page says some of its functionality is obsolete since
2008, but it still works for me except that compiz thinks I'm pressing
the key as a modifier as well as middle-clicking and activates zoom
mode.

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On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:12:56 +0100
Big and Blue  wrote:

> Tony Houghton wrote:
> > I want to emulate middle mouse button clicks with a spare key on my
> > keyboard. I used to do it with one of my old laptops but I can't
> > remember how. I can't find anything useful on Google; the only thing
> > that looked like what I wanted was xrebind, but that didn't work for me.
> 
> xmodmap?

AFAICT it treats mouse buttons and keyboard keys as different entities
with no way of mapping between the two different types.

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