more than 5 mouse buttons

[Hendrik Tews]

Corne Beerse <cbeerse "at" gmail.com> writes:

   For current situations, I think there are some parties that have to
   cooperate:
   - The mouse driver at the console needs to send the signals to the
   desktop-s X11 (or msWindows desktop). I bet most standard mouse
   drivers only recognize 3 physical buttons and the scroll-wheel.

I don't know about the standard mouse drivers. I use evdev on
linux, which sends events for all buttons.

   - Then the window manager (linux or windows) must send the signals to
   the vncviewer application.

Under X it's not the window manager but the X server which
controls the mouse device. For the xorg server, the events are
available, xev does report them. So I guess the vncviewer sees
the events.

   - I guess the vncviewer application blindly sends all signals to the
   vncserver side.

How can I see what is sent? I tried -log '*:stderr:100' on both
vncviewer and vncserver. I do see key events in the server log,
but I don't see mouse events neither in the server log nor in the
viewer log. 

   - msWindows based vncserver must send the signals to the remote
   msWindows windowmanager.

I am using linux on the viewer and the server side.

   - unix based vncserver (Xvnc) must handle the signals: send it to the
   windowmanager at that side and so on.

You mean the X server inside vncserver. That's definitely not
happening, otherwise I could see the events with xev inside vnc.

   - Finally there is the application that has to handle the mouse buttons...

There are enough applications that support more than 5 buttons:
emacs, firefox, gimp,...

So in my case everything but vnc supports more than 5 buttons.

Bye,

Hendrik