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Vilietha
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Joined: 16 Apr 2008
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 Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 9:56 am Post subject: Middle mouse button remapping and emulation |
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Hi everyone,
I have a mouse with many buttons. I would like to remap the middle mouse button to another mouse button. Do you know how I can do that?
Also, I tried to emulate my middle mouse button with
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Section "InputClass"
Identifier "whatever"
MatchIsPointer "on"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
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in ~/.xinitrc, but it doesnt work. Do you know how to get that working too?
I look forward to your answers.
Best wishes,
Vilietha |
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ayvango
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 08 Feb 2012
Posts: 118
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You should use xinput set-button-map. For more information see man xinput. imwheel program should also be useful for you. It allows to map some mouse keys to keyboard combinations.
I have logitech mouse with two additional buttons. I'm using xinput and imwheel combo to swap middle button with an additional, because it is easy to press it while using mouse wheel. Other two buttons I've mapped to Shift+Insert and Ctrl+Insert.
.imwheelrc
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".*"
None, Thumb1, Shift_L|Insert
None, Thumb2, Control_L|Insert
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runImwheel.sh
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#/bin/sh
DISTINGUISH="Logitech"
XINPUT="/usr/bin/xinput"
IMWHEEL="/usr/bin/imwheel"
ID=$($XINPUT list | grep $DISTINGUISH | cut -f 2 - | cut -b 4\,5 -)
if [ ! -z $ID ]; then
$XINPUT set-button-map $ID 1 8 3 4 5 6 7 2 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
PID=$(pidof $IMWHEEL)
if [ ! -z $PID ]; then
kill $PID
fi
$IMWHEEL
fi
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