Re: How to use many(>6) button mouse devices

[Brad Sawatzky <brad+debian@lamorak.phys.virginia.edu>]

Hi Travis,

Thanks for the reply, but no dice.  'xev' reports button11 and button12
events when I use the scroll wheel but the actual scrolling is broken.
No change wrt the other buttons.

-- Brad

On Tue, 04 Mar 2003, Travis Crump wrote:

> Brad Sawatzky wrote:
> >I've got myself a Kensington ExpertMouse USB trackball.  The thing has
> >  6 "special" buttons (ie. intended for exe launching, etc)
> >  4  regular buttons
> >  1  wheel
> >
> >This gives me three usable regular buttons (ie. right, left, middle),
> >and a working wheel.  In 'xev' the remaining regular button generates a 
> >button3 event, and none of the special buttons register at all.  The
> >"Buttons" option doesn't seem to do much at all...
> >
> 
> I am just extrapolating from my seven button mouse, but try something like:
> 
> In /etc/X11/XF86Config-4:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> [...]
>         Option          "Buttons"               "12"
>         Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "11 12"
> EndSection
> 
> In ~/.xmodmap:
> 
> pointer = 1 2 3 11 12 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
> 
> Then you have to source ~/.xmodmap somewhere with the command 'xmodmap 
> ~/.xmodmap'.  I do this in my .bashrc, but this is more a kludge than 
> anything.[I have the following in my .bashrc:
> 
>     if [ "$TERM"  == "xterm" ]; then
> 	 xmodmap ~/.xmodmap-Pretzalz
>     fi
> 
> ]
> 
> 
-- 
Brad Sawatzky <bds9e@virginia.edu>
University of Virginia Physics Department
Ph: (434) 924-6580    Fax: (434) 924-4576