Bug#284561: xserver-xfree86: Mouse buttons events get mixed up when trying to remap buttons
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 17:01 +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
>
> When trying to remap the mouse buttons with xmodmap, xinput or the gnome
> mouse panel (left-handed setting), the mouse events get mixed up.
[...]
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "CorePointer"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Generic Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> # Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
[...]
> OS Kernel: Linux version 2.6.9-1-686 (dilinger@toaster.hq.voxel.net) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-2)) #1 Thu Nov 25 03:48:29 EST 2004
With a 2.6 kernel, /dev/psaux is just an alias of /dev/input/mice. So
you have two input devices for the same thing (didn't you notice the
mouse being twice as fast as it should be? ;), but the button remapping
only applies to the CorePointer.
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