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gentoofrm
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 Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 4:52 am Post subject: Mouse: Side or Thumb Buttons |
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This is for any mouse with 6 or 7 buttons.
The side (thumb) button of a 6-button mouse will work as a "BACK" button (going back to a previous page in a web browser, for example).
| Quote: | 1 Left
2 Middle (when you press the wheel, it becomes button #2)
3 Right
4 Wheel Up
5 Wheel Down
6 Side or Thumb Button #1
7 Side or Thumb Button #2 |
There are lots of tips and Q&As on this topic in the forum.
Unfortunately, one single thread couldn't solve my problem.
So, I merged a few of them as follows:
This XF86Config or XF86Config-4 is for USBMOUSE. If you use PS/2, change it.
| Code: | 1] $ nano /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/usbmouse"
#Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
#Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection |
| Code: | | 2] $ emerge imwheel* |
| Code: | 3-a] backup imwheelrc
$ cp /etc/X11/imwheelrc /etc/X11/imwheelrc.0 |
| Code: | 3-b] delete everything in imwheelrc and add
$ nano /etc/X11/imwheelrc
"(null)"
None, Thumb1, Alt_L|Left,1
None, Thumb2, Alt_L|Right,1
"^Mozilla.*"
None, Thumb1, Alt_L|Left,1
None, Thumb2, Alt_L|Right,1
"^firefox.*"
None, Thumb1, Alt_L|Left,1
None, Thumb2, Alt_L|Right,1
".*"
None, Thumb1, Alt_L|Left,1
None, Thumb2, Alt_L|Right,1 |
| Code: | 5] $ nano -w /etc/X11/Xmodmap
pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5 |
| Code: | 6] if you use kde-3.2.0
$ nano /etc/X11/Sessions/kde-3.2.0
#!/bin/sh
exec xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5" &
exec imwheel -p -k -b "000067" -f &
/usr/kde/3.2/bin/startkde |
7] reboot and enjoy!
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[Unnecessary Steps]
~/.xmodmap
~/.xinitrc
~/.imwheelrc
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[Troubleshooting]
| Code: | 1] in user's terminal, not root's
$ xmodmap -pp
There are 7 pointer buttons defined.
Physical Button
Button Code
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 6
5 7
6 4
7 5 |
| Code: | 2] checking button numbers
$ /usr/X11R6/bin/uxterm
$ xev |
if your KDE/GNOME session deos not allow you to use "uxterm,"
log out and log into "Xsession."
3] references
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=121670
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=130295
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=148645
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=148711 |
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troki
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 10:37 am Post subject: |
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Hrm. Is it possible to send button1 events through imwheel ?
( non fifo ) |
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Bastux
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 11:11 am Post subject: |
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not sure but my imwheelrc is :
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"Mozilla*"
None, Left, Alt_L|Left
None, Right, Alt_L|Right
None, Up, Alt_L|Left,1
None, Down, Alt_L|Right,1
"(null)"
None, Up, Alt_L|Left,1
None, Down, Alt_L|Right,1
"*"
None, Left, Alt_L|Left
None, right, Alt_L|Right
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and it works for both firefox and mozilla
Is it necessary to put 2 sections? |
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ed0n
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 11:38 am Post subject: |
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thanks , I was looking for this these days  , my mouse now is really usefull |
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flow666
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| Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 8:30 am Post subject: |
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If I have two mouse devices, is it possible to tell Xmodmap to use the second device?
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seppe
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| Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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I finally have my MX700 working, but I have another imwheelrc:
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"(null)"
None, Left, Alt_L|Left,1
None, Right, Alt_L|Right,1
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And it works under FireFox & Mozilla!
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AugustineF
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| Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 2:04 am Post subject: |
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funny thing is, this works perfectly even on 6 button mice.
I had a 7 botton mouce before and it was working correctly, but when I got a 6 button wireless mouse, I changed the button nos to 6 and since then the side button and the middle button (wheel click) were producing the same event).
But using the tip as it is, now the Left button produces a different event.
thanks a lot for this tip |
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ck42
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| Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Is it possible to set the thumb button to do some other function? My favorite on my windoze box is to minimize the active window. |
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Greven
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| Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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Using what Gentoofrm posted.... I lost the power to use my scroll wheel and my thumb buttons move the pages up and down. I want my thumb buttons to go foreword and backwords in web surfing and my scroll whell to scroll.
Thanks.
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uglyb0b
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 12:49 am Post subject: |
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Oh, that's hot.
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Greven
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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*BUMP*
I would like to use my scroll whell please.
Thanks.
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rentonj7
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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Greven, i had the same problem. I don't know what kind of mouse you have, but I know that for my A4Tech WOP-35PU, i had to change:
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
to:
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
I'm still working on getting it's second wheel working for horizontal scroll, and the other buttons to behave...
good luck |
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glawrie
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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Could someone clarify two things please?Why is it necessary to do the Xmodmap business - why not just put Z Axis mapping to buttons 4 5? If the remapping is necessary, how do you get the Xmodmap entry to auto-load when Gentoo starts? - I've tried creating an /etc/X11/Xmodmap file with the mapping in it, but it doesn't seem to do anything. Thanks in advance for your help. I'm new at this, and am sure I'm missing something obvious... but not sure what that is... |
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rentonj7
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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| glawrie, as far as i can tell, if you just want to use your wheel, just set the Z Axis mapping to 4 5, the xmodmap controlls how the thumb buttons are used. |
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glawrie
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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| rentonj7 wrote: | | glawrie, as far as i can tell, if you just want to use your wheel, just set the Z Axis mapping to 4 5, the xmodmap controlls how the thumb buttons are used. |
Thanks for the confirmation - I've got a Logitech MX500 (USB mouse, wheel, left, right and wheel buttons plus 5 others) and manged to get the wheel working with Z Axis mapped to 4 5. But I'd like to get the other buttons working if I can - so I'll keep trying to work out how it all works: so if you know how to get the Xmodmap changes to occur at the start of a session, I'd value that info. What I don't yet understand is why to get the other buttons working, you need to remap the 4 5 buttons (i.e. wheel up / down) to other button numbers: can't one just get imwheel (or whatever) to simply use the higher number buttons instead?
Regards
Gavin. |
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YopWongSapn
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| Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 5:31 am Post subject: |
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I spent some time figuring out how to get this tutorial to work in Gnome, and I thought I'd post my findings.
Follow this tutorial until you get to step 6. From there:
| Code: | # nano /etc/X11/Sessions/Gnome
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# xkb and xmodmap don't play nice together
if [ -z "$XKB_IN_USE" ]; then
if [ -f "$rh6sysmodmap" ]; then
xmodmap "$rh6sysmodmap"
fi
if [ -f "$sysmodmap" ]; then
xmodmap "$sysmodmap" && imwheel -p -k -b "000067" -f
fi
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It's a messy, but this will run imwheel for every user that logs in. Gnome runs Xmodmap by default.
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wizard69
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| Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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| this howto worked fine for me in XFree86 since i moved to xorg i can't get the side buttons of my mx700 to work anymore does someone have a solution to this problem |
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Nate_S
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| Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 12:58 am Post subject: |
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Some of you who are wanting to do more advanced things should take a look at some of the origional threads such as this one
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=98028
to answer some real quickly, for a horizontal scroll wheel I think you need to use ZAxisMapping="4 5 6 7" or something like that
The place I've been putting the xmodmap line is in /etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap
take a look in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, you'll notice it'll use that file if it's there (I belive /the thing it refers to in /usr/share is a symlink to the stuff in /etc) |
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Naughtyus
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| Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 1:07 am Post subject: |
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Thank you very much!
This is the only howto on this topic that has worked perfectly without any modification for me. |
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Bollenator
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| Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Naughtyus wrote: | Thank you very much!
This is the only howto on this topic that has worked perfectly without any modification for me. |
Me too!
Glawrie,
You might be able to make the mouse settings start up as a script depending on your WM. I use XFce4 and I just created a very simple bash script that I put in ~/Desktop/Autostart that XFce reads and starts up every time the WM is started up. I'm sure there are other ways for other WMs (fvwm has a StartFunction or something in the .fvwm2rc file, KDE/Gnome not sure) so you may want to explore the forum looking for things referring to "default start up applications" or something similar. Good luck!
Just for fun:
| Code: | #!/bin/sh
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5" &
imwheel -p -k -b "000067" -f & |
Just make sure to | Code: | | $ chmod a+x ~/Desktop/Autostart/mouse #or whatever you named the script |
This isn't necessarily of my own design but I pieced it together from some of the mouse-button HOW-TOs on these forums. HTH!
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