Checking for existence of mouse buttons/keys

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From: Josh Marantz
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 20:51

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>der Mouse (dm) writes:
>...Printing a message like "I can't run on a
>server with only 2 buttons on the pointer" and dying is better than
>running crippled due to needing a nonexistent third button.  (Usually.
>I would want any such program to have a switch saying "I know what I'm
>doing; run anyway.".)  Not checking and then depending on the presence
>of those buttons is IMO a bug.

By the way, how do you query X to see how many mouse butons are
actualy present?  For that matter, can you detect if certain keys on
the keyboard are present (I guess that means, are any keycodes bound to
specific keysyms?)

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