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Using mouse acceleration and other mouse settings with X-Win32

X-Win32 should work just fine with mouse software from Logitech or Microsoft (such as MouseWare or IntelliPoint ). In particular, mouse acceleration is known to work with X-Win32.

The only features of mouse software that does not work well with X-Win32 are features that remap the middle mouse button to another function (e.g. Switch to Next Application, Zoom, etc.). Such features are implemented by intercepting the middle mouse button click (the middle mouse button on wheel mice is activated by pressing down on the wheel) and preventing it from being sent to the underlying application. IntelliPoint and MouseWare used to work fine with X-Win32 in this respect, but they have recently changed their default settings for the middle mouse button (e.g. IntelliPoint now sets the middle mouse button to Next Application by default) so X-Win32 is no longer informed that the middle mouse button has been pressed. The work-around to this problem is to set the middle mouse buttion to Middle Click in the Mouse Control Panel.

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Category:Input -> Mouse



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