Re: Logitech MX310 mouse: Dead extra button?
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 03:15:32PM -0800, Tom wrote:
> The wheel works fine. The additional button on the right side appears
> to behave identically to the right mouse button. The additional button
> on the left appears to behave like clicking the wheel button (i.e., the
> middle button) in Mozilla and appears to have bizarre, unpredictable
> effects in gnome-terminal (if I press it while in "less" then "nano"
> gets started and some text gets pasted in). The small button behind the
> wheel does nothing.
I noticed the same thing. My mouse had the same config as yours when I
first plugged it in, and I had the same results. If you run 'xev',
you'll see that those buttons are simply recognized as Button2 and
Button3. As far as X knows/cares, your real Button2/3 are the exact
same things as the side buttons. Interesting, though, that the small
middle button is silent. Could you possibly do me a favor and run
'xev', and then put your mouse cursor over it, and hit that button, and
then report whether anything comes out?
> I wouldn't even know what's useful to map them to in GNU/Linux + X.
> In windows they act as browser-back and browser-forward for Web Pages
> and the shell. Basically I don't need them.
I bought this mouse specifically because it had lots of buttons, and
didn't have a completely ridiculous price ($30). At least a *somewhat*
reasonable price.. $50 or $80 is just ridiculous to me for a mouse, I
don't care how many buttons it has. I'm not sure what I'll use them for
exactly yet, but I know I'll find good uses for them. For example, I
currently use alt+mouse wheel to raise/lower windows, and I turn off all
auto raising on click/hover/etc. I like this *a lot*.
If you do feel like making them work, consider my original message a
mini how-to. ;)
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