Re: How to unbind MacBook mouse buttons from Fn-F10 and Fn-F11
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On 2014-01-20 15:03, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> I've just installed Debian jessie (testing) on a MacBook Pro and
> it's doing my head in :-( I wonder if anyone has any ideas that
> might help me....
>
> I'm using XFCE4 as my window manager, if that makes any
> difference.
>
> I really want to still have my F10 and F11 function keys work as
> just that; I'm happy to lose the "apple-cmd" keys to the left and
> right mouse buttons (which are also in a much more convenient
> location).
>
> I found that the page
> https://wiki.debian.org/MacBook#Mouse_2nd_and_3rd_buttons is fine
> (though I had to change the keycodes), as long as I then enabled
> it using xkbset -m.
>
> But I can't find any way to turn off the F10 and F11 mouse button
> emulation :-(
>
> I found that /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode was 97,
> mouse_button3_keycode was 100 (or perhaps it was the other way
> around), and mouse_button_emulation was 0, yet it was still
> emulating. I set mouse_button2_keycode to 133 (left apple) and
> mouse_button3_keycode to 134, and echo'd 1 to
> mouse_button_emulation, but that made no difference to the function
> key behaviour.
>
> So something somewhere else is capturing these button presses, but
> I don't know where.
>
> Does anyone have any clue?
IIRC there's the mouseemu package.
You may also be interested in this:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AppleKeyboard
> Many thanks,
>
> Julian
- - Felix
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