--- In solarisx86@yahoogroups.com, Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko@c...> wrote:
> Juergen Keil wrote:
> > --- In solarisx86@yahoogroups.com, Cyril Plisko
<cyril.plisko@c...> wrote:

> > Then use xmodmap to create a pointer button map, to shuffle around the
> > the buttons, so that the thumb button 4 is remapped to button 6, and
> > the scroll button events 5 & 6 get remapped to buttons 4 & 5 (4 & 5
> > are the buttons most X11 applications expect for mouse wheel scroll
> > events):
> >
> > xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 4 5"'
> >
> >
>
> $ xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 4 5"
> xmodmap: commandline:1: bad number of buttons, must have 3 instead
of 6
> xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting.
> $
>
>
> Bummer...


Your X server's mouse module seems to be reporting only 3 physical
buttons, like this:

% xmodmap -pp
There are 3 pointer buttons defined.

Physical Button
Button Code
1 1
2 2
3 3
%

Is there a

buttons="3"

setting in the /etc/openwin/server/etc/OWconfig file? Try to change
that to buttons="6", then restart the X server. xmodmap -pp should
report 6 pointer buttons.