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firephoto
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Try checking out:
/etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap
and put a line in it like this.
| Code: | | pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5 |
If the file doesn't exist, make one.
For the imwheel part, or your xmodmap if you don't want to do the above part.
~/.kde/Autostart/imwheel.desktop
| Code: | [Desktop Entry]
Comment=
Comment[en_US]=
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=imwheel -k -b "67" -p &
GenericName=
GenericName[en_US]=
Icon=exec
MimeType=
Name=
Name[en_US]=
Path=
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-DCOP-ServiceType=nonexbindkeys
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=
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~/.kde/Autostart/xmodmap.desktop
| Code: | [Desktop Entry]
Comment=
Comment[en_US]=
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
GenericName=
GenericName[en_US]=
Icon=exec
MimeType=
Name=
Name[en_US]=
Path=
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-DCOP-ServiceType=none
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=
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gen2fox
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| Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 12:47 pm Post subject: |
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| ereptor wrote: | ok, i imagine this is a newb question and i don't even know if this is the forum i should be posting it in but here goes...i don't know how to get my mousewheel on my mouse to work, i have a logitech mouse, 2 button and a mousewheel
here is my input device setion in my XF86Config for my mouse
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "3"
EndSection |
Remove: Option "Buttons" "3"
Change the protocol to: Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" |
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gen2fox
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| Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Gibberx wrote: | | I've just picked up this Compaq Wireless Desktop keyboard/mouse combo from Radio Shack yesterday. The mouse has two buttons on the sides, but according to xev, they generate the same events as buttons 2 and 3. Is there any way to change the events generated? I'm thinking a driver would be necessary to do something like that. |
My mouse side buttons used to generate events for buttons 2 and 3 too, I followed the instructions and they work fine now. |
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demitrix
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| i followed the instructions too and they still generate events 2 and 3 D: |
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mlavalle
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| Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 2:11 am Post subject: Logitech USB Scrolling Not Working |
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I have a USB scroll mouse by Logitech, and the scroll option doesn't work (it was working with Fedora and Windows). I have the following in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4:
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Buttons" "5"
/dev/mouse is a symlink to /dev/psaux. I am using Kernel 2.4.25-gentoo-r1, and XFree86 with WindowMaker (no Gnome at this time). I've tried a few suggestions as posted in the alt.linux.gentoo newsgroup, but nothing has worked so far and this is really starting to frustrate me. 
Has anyone run into this before? I'm thinking of maybe trying "imwheel", but as I understand it XFree86 is supposed to support this wheel natively, and I am worried not all of my applications will support imwheel (such as Neverwinter Nights and Doom 3, when it's released). |
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Jazz
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| Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 3:24 am Post subject: |
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Hmm, ok i got the butons to work but i want some extra functionality from my mouse !
For example i want the mouse scroll button to minimize all the windows, and the right thumb button to fire up konqueror,.
How can i do this ? except this stupid glitch everything seems to be working just perfect !
Kudos.
Bye,
Jazz
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Jazz
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| Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 1:45 am Post subject: |
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Umm no replies ! can any one help me with this ?
Or can anyone give example for passing a Ctrl+Alt+K combination ? that way i'll configure kde to start the konqueror..
BYe,
Jazz
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firephoto
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| Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 4:57 am Post subject: |
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Well if you are using kde it's simple for keyboard shortucts.
Just right click on the kicker and go into the menu editor and find the app you want to have a shortucut too and at the bottom it says "Current shortucut key:" click the box and do your key combo, change any other apps you want to then click close, then save, it updates the system, and you're good to go.
For the mouse to do commands do the xbindkeys and xvkbd would be the easiest. Just do like it says in the MX700 post I made, lots of info there. |
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ajs
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| Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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i'm just about to give up. i have an ms intellimouse optical mouse and have never been able to get any output from the two thumb buttons in xev. scrolling works fine though.
here is a snip from XF86Config
| Code: | Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection |
i then run | Code: | | xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5" |
manually from a console, but i still get no output from the buttons in xev.
i'm using kde-3.2.3 and vanilla kernel 2.6.7.
any help is most appreciated. |
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baitken
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| Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 5:54 am Post subject: Re: Wheel works but side buttons don't |
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| greenbob wrote: | I have followed all the instructions I can find but am still unable to get my side buttons to work.
The wheel works fine in mozilla but the side buttons only scroll up in mozilla
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I had that same proble so I tried using the 9 button setup mentioned earlier on this board and now it works. |
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frodoontop
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| Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 8:36 am Post subject: |
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@ajs: Try to switch back to kernel 2.6.6. The 2.6.7 kernel didn't respond to my sidebuttons in xev, where 2.6.6 did.
<edit> When pulling out the usbTOps2 convertor and plugging my mouse directly in usb, sidebuttons worked again in 2.6.7 kernel. I didn't even have to restart, thanks to hotplug and udev (I think). </edit>
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mlt
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| Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 5:13 am Post subject: |
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After spending a couple days on this (don't ya just love the ease-of-use of Linux?), I now have my Intellimouse Optical USB mouse thumb buttons automatically working in KDE and kernel 2.6.7. The hard part was to get KDE to automatically remap the buttons (see below).
Here's the mouse section from my /etc/X11/XF86Config:
| Code: | Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "IntelliMouseOptical"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection |
Some items of note:
1. I renamed the identifier from "Mouse1" to "IntellimouseOptical" just for my own sake. Of course this means that the other parts of XF86Config where "Mouse1" showed up also had to be renamed.
2. The program "xev" is extremely useful for seeing how changes in the config affect the buttons.
3. My mouse and mousewheel worked with the "Auto" protocol, but it was absolutely necessary to use the "ExplorerPS/2" protocol to get the 2 thumb buttons recognized.
4. Specifying Option "Buttons" "7" appears to be redundant.
Once I had this, I could run:
| Code: | xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
imwheel -pfb "67" |
and everything was peachy (using the .imwheelrc specified earlier in this thread).
Unfortunately, I had a very difficult time getting the xmodmap and imwheel commands to start automatically. They did not work in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, they did not work in ~/.xinitrc. They did not work in the /etc/X11/Sessions/kde-3.2.2 script. Not in a box, not with a fox, not in a house, not with a mouse.
Eventually I put them near the top of the script in
| Code: | | /usr/kde/3.2/share/config/kdm/Xsession |
(i.e., $KDEDIR/share/config/kdm/Xsession)
Now, using the /etc/X11/imwheelrc, I have working thumb buttons for all users on my system 
Hope this helps someone else trying to automatically start xmodmap in KDE. |
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djdread
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| Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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| marienZ wrote: | Thanks, now I just have to figure out what to do with the extra button...
I'm using a logitech mx300, which has just one extra button, and your howto works just fine. I think it's a bit odd I have to use the ExplorerPS/2 driver for this mouse, but what the heck, it works  (apparently, logitech and microsoft are using the same protocol here, or the linux usb hid driver is, i'm not sure). |
I also have the MX300 and would like to use the 5th button as a back button in Firefox. I followed the above exactly just if for some reason it worked, but it doesnt, it screws everything up. Would you or someone else mind posting your config so I can see what I'm missing.
Thanks. |
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SmokyMcPot
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| Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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I'm using Gnome 2.6 and everything works fine when i manually start xmodmap and imwheel. I put it in:
/usr/X11/xinit/xinitrc
/home/smoky/.xinitrc
but it never starts automatically. How can I tell Gnome to start this everytime for every user?
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gen2fox
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| Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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My .xinitrc file is:
| Code: | xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
imwheel -k -b "67" -p
exec gnome-session |
Using GNOME 2.4, it works fine. |
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SmokyMcPot
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| Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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| And it's placed in /home/USER ? |
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gen2fox
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| Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, /home/$USER |
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SmokyMcPot
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| Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, I tried that but didn't work. Hope someone has another idea - couldn't be so difficult I think ... |
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RealNitro
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| Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 8:26 am Post subject: |
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| SmokyMcPot wrote: | | Well, I tried that but didn't work. Hope someone has another idea - couldn't be so difficult I think ... |
My problem was that 'xmodmap' is not a command on my system. So, the mousewheel and the thumb-buttons were not switched around. As a noob, I don't know how to get that command 'xmodmap' working, so I searched for a different solution in these forums, and I found one:
- Create a file /etc/X11/Xmodmap
- add this content:
| Code: | | pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5 |
This seems to to the same thing as executing "xmodmap -e ..." |
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SmokyMcPot
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| Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 8:26 am Post subject: |
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| thx. And what's about imwheel? |
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RealNitro
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| Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 8:43 am Post subject: |
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| SmokyMcPot wrote: | | thx. And what's about imwheel? |
I put the imwheel message in .xinitrc , but also in some other files. I'll check it out later today. |
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Kroni
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| Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 8:59 am Post subject: |
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I have another serious problem. If i add ~/.xinitrc file to my box
X wont start anymore  im not @ home to post special errors but i remmeber it tells me "No Screens found" ...
Anyone maybe knows a solution ?
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M_A_D
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| Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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well, thanks to this how-to my thumb buttons on my intellimouse explorer 3.0 are working fine...
but while going through the how-to i found out that i cannot use xev. i mean i start the program, the window appears, but when i click a button over the window or press a key with the xev-window activated it shows nothing...
anyone got an idea why?
oh, and another thing:
you know in windows when i middle-click on something in firefox (which is not a link) i can get this auto-scroll thing and scroll by just moving the mouse up a bit or down a bit...
can i get that in linux too (using kde-3.2.2) ?
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mlt
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| Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | but while going through the how-to i found out that i cannot use xev. i mean i start the program, the window appears, but when i click a button over the window or press a key with the xev-window activated it shows nothing... |
When you start xev, do you start it from a terminal or from the "Run command" menu? You must start it from a terminal, because it spits out all its output on the terminal. |
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M_A_D
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| Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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| mlt wrote: | | Quote: | | but while going through the how-to i found out that i cannot use xev. i mean i start the program, the window appears, but when i click a button over the window or press a key with the xev-window activated it shows nothing... |
When you start xev, do you start it from a terminal or from the "Run command" menu? You must start it from a terminal, because it spits out all its output on the terminal. |
thanks...
foolish me did of course run it from the run-command... 
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