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Kvetch
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 Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 3:33 pm Post subject: Mouse button confusion / xmodmap/imwheel |
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I have a wireless 7 button mouse I just bought for my laptop running XFCE. I connected it to the laptop I looked up the event # and other Handlers as such.
| Code: | # cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0003 Vendor=099a Product=2515 Version=0110
N: Name=" USB Receiver"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.2-2/input1
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb8/8-2/8-2:1.1/input/input7
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd mouse0 event7
B: EV=17
B: KEY=1f0000 2000000 3878d801d001 1e000000000000 0
B: REL=143
B: MSC=10 |
Edited my xorg.conf to have the following
| Code: | Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "USB Mouse"
Driver "evdev"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/event7"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
Option "Sensitivity" "0.14"
EndSection |
The scroll wheel is working fine but the thumb buttons (I believe buttons 6 and 7) are reversed. The normal thumb back button goes "forward" and the normal forward button goes "back".
I changed my ZAxisMapping to "4 5" but that didn't seem to affect anything. I tried playing around with xmodmap but I couldn't get the buttons reversed but I could disable my scroll when playing with xmodmap. I read a bunch of threads saying you have to use xmodmap and imwheel to remap your buttons but that didn't seem to make sense to me. I installed imwheel and tried messing with it but it didn't seem to fix it for me. Why do you even need to use xmodmap? Can I not remap my 2 side buttons in X? Is using imwheel and xmodmap together really the way to achieve this?
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VoidMage
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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Did you bother to look at the driver's manpage ?
Also, what version of xorg-server are you talking about ? |
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Kvetch
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Hey VoidMage, thanks for replying. Sorry I am running xorg 1.7.6. I did look at the manpage for evdev and if you are referring to the ButtonMapping option, I had tried playing around with that too but that didn't seem to do it for me. |
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VoidMage
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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No, I was talking about YAxisMapping.
Also, hal settings may interfere, though I'd try going straight to 1.8
and InputClass. |
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