X/Mouse Extra Buttons HOWTO

Xithix · Apprentice Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 228

When I use my USB-to-PS/2 converter the light on my mouse turns on but neither /dev/input/mice nor /dev/input/mouse0 produce ANY output for it and the mouse does not work at all, inside X or using gpm. No other mouse devices popped up in /dev either. Hotplug and Codplug are both started in the default runlevel. If I hotplug it back into usb it works, but not the scroll wheel, as expected.

Edit: The wheel works in Windows

Kenji Miyamoto · Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 9:11 pm Post subject:

Which model do you have?

I can't place an xsession or .xinitrc in my home directory; X starts up for a second, then quits without even the cursor appearing. Is there another place I can place xmodmap into, until I can get KDE running?

playahater · Guru Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 382 Location: Serbia

I have one question ..
I have set that side buttons do left and right .. BUT ..
can it be set that side buttons do Close and Maximize/Minimize ??
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soigres · Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 4:41 pm Post subject:

i have a mouse with 6 buttons (has only one nav left button, not the right one)... i says in the xorg.conf that i have 6 buttons or 7 (tried all) but when i type xmodmap it says that i have 12 buttons... so i fill with 8 9 10 11 12 the command but the wheel still remains the nav and the nav is the wheel... what to do???

gettons · n00b Joined: 20 Oct 2005 Posts: 25

Hello to everybody, i 've read the how-to , but at his time I can't use the buttons properly.
On the x server I can use all the buttons , but they are "crossed", I explain better my situation.

I've a Logitech Cordless Optical Mouse , I've found it in the ULTRAX CORDLESS MEDIA DESKTOP pack.
If you want to see it go to this url http://www.linux-onlineshop.de/images/product_images/popup_images/722_1.jpg

My mouse have 1 left button, 1 right button , one wheel ( that you can also click on right and left ) , and two side buttons.
This is my configuration on xorg

discostu · Guru Joined: 01 Nov 2002 Posts: 333

In my configuration I have an IBM mouse with left, right, scroll wheel, and 1 thumb button (or side button or whatever you call it). I set it up so that my scroll up and scroll down perform the default functions, but the scroll wheel is not the middle mouse button. I found it more convenient (for pasting text) to use the thumb button.

There's only 1 annoyance. The mouse wheel is sometimes kinda sticky and upon scrolling up or down I often click it down. In firefox, this seems to send me back in history. I know pressing shift+scroll down should send me back in history (and it does) but I can't figure out why pressing the scroll button does this too. I guess it's probably because the thumb is supposed to do this and I switched them. Any suggestions.

xorg.conf:

SJWackness · n00b Joined: 18 Mar 2006 Posts: 3

I could use a bit of support if anyone has information that may be of help to me.

I have an IntelliMouse Explorer for Bluetooth and while the mouse and keyboard perform all basic functions, I cannot get the scroll wheel or side buttons working. I have used xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5" and ran xmodmap -pp and it shows that the buttons are correctly assigned. The problem occurs when I run xev. When I move the mouse into the box, only the left and right buttons and the wheel click show an event. I get nothing for the scroll wheel or side buttons. What am I missing?

Ranju · n00b Joined: 26 Mar 2006 Posts: 1

Hello
I tried to follow the explained steps, but mouse is not working. I have a Logitech PS/2 with wheel and 6 Buttons (one is the wheel).The 6th Button should start the command "3ddesk" (a little Program t show the Desktop in 3D view).

1.Till now the 6th Button did the same action as the 1rst.
I changed the entries in "xorg" as it has been explained and restarted, but now the 6th Button does not show any event in "xev".

2.I have written the Program imwheelrc with following content
".*"
None, Left, 3ddesk

and tried to run it, but command not found.

How to make the 6th Button work?
How to write a script to start "3ddesk" with the 6th Button?

Regards

thedeadlyquiche · n00b Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 33

fbvortex · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 22

So with the correct options for mouse protocol, ZAxisMapping, and xmodmap, I've gotten my USB 4-button + scrollwheel mouse to work correctly in XOrg 6.8.2 . The 4th button generates a Button-6 event, which is interpreted as a "Back" navigation event in programs like Firefox and Konqueror. I am not using imwheel.

However, what I would like to do is map the fourth button to a double-click of Button-1, X-wide. It doesn't seem like I can do this with xbindkeys & xvkbd or any other commonly suggested program(s). Have I missed something and can imwheel or xbindkeys & xvkbd do what I want? If not, how can I consume the Button-6 event and turn it into a double click of Button-1?

Thanks.

meowsqueak · Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 10:54 pm Post subject: Re: X/Mouse Extra Buttons HOWTO

meowsqueak · Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 10:54 pm Post subject:

For interest, I have not yet managed to get this to work for xorg-7.0. Still working on it. If anyone else figures it out before I do, please post here.

downey · Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:42 am Post subject:

I haven't been able to get this to work either with X.org 7.0. It was working fine before upgrading and now my side buttons are gone. The only thing that I'm seeing which is odd is that X is now reporting that I have 11 buttons instead of 7 on my mouse. I'm using a MicroSoft Intellimouse. Here is my xorg.conf section:

downey · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 7:31 pm Post subject:

After a bit of messing around with xev and the config utility I was able to get it to work with X.org 7.0. Here's what I found:
1) The X server does seem to always see my mouse as having 11 buttons even if I use the Option "Buttons" "7". Couldn't seem to fix that.
2) There appears to be a new file ~/.imwheelrc that doesn't work with my configuration. Not too sure where it came from but I deleted it.
3) I removed my Xmodmap file in /etc/X11 and just use the default. Before I had it set to do just

rockandchelle · n00b Joined: 17 Aug 2003 Posts: 24 Location: Georgia

bammbamm808 · Guru Joined: 08 Dec 2002 Posts: 548 Location: Hawaii

I have a logitech MX310 USB and "lost" my extra buttons unser xorg 7.0, like others here. I got it to work as before by the following. Oh, and I have NEVER used mwheel for the simple functionality I need. (Having the buttons available for games, and "back" and "forward" in Firefox)

xorg.conf:

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

script in my xfce ~/Desktop/Autostart to run xmodmap:

xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 6 7" &

Oh and here's what xmodmap -pp gives me:

There are 11 pointer buttons defined.

Physical Button
Button Code
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 8
7 9
8 6
9 7
10 10
11 11

I think the upshot is that the 6.x mouse driver wanted the side buttons to be 6 & 7 and the new 7.x one wants them to be 8 & 9. Don't ask me why my mouse now has 11 buttons to X, though.
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Drunkula · Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:03 am Post subject:

Now this may be a stupid question. Where the heck did xev go? I was trying to determine what button my ONLY thumb button should be. I was hoping to make it act like a "Back" button in Firefox. But alas, xev is nowhere to be found in my setup. Is it no longer part of xorg-x11 7?

discostu · Guru Joined: 01 Nov 2002 Posts: 333

Drunkula · Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:46 pm Post subject:

tkhobbes · Guru Joined: 12 Nov 2004 Posts: 367 Location: Switzerland

Anyone got wheel and extra button working with a MS Intellimouse Explorer for Bluetooth?

I am struggling for months now - all howto's I found did not work... I don't know whether it's bluetooth or what else, but my system does not even recognise a mouse when issueing "cat /proc/bus/input/devices":

dia · n00b Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 19

Not sure if this will help anyone but I was having problems with my MS LaserMouse 6000 KB/M combo.

Inside /etc/X11/Xmodmap I put: