is there a way to get these to work with the logitech mouseman dual optical? it has 4 buttons, left, right, middle, left side, any help would be great, thanks

Ok this is bullshit!! If the writer of imwheel is reading this post please get in touch with me so I can help you with this program. It has soooo much potential yet you don't document anything. I have read this entire forum for about two hours trying to get my intellimouse explorer optical to work. And needless to say it doesn't work. We could have save these other people hours of there time if in your example configuration file you gave some type of definition of all the commands. You did give some definitions, but no clear examples. Just lines and lines of code that many people have no idea what it does. Everyone in this post has just said "put this here and put that there" without explaining what it was doing. Such as the confige file. here is what I have

".*"
None, Left, Alt_L|Left
None, Right, Alt_L|Righ

How about someone clearly define the ".*" part. I have seen others with "^mozilla" another with ".Mozilla" and so on. All many of us need is a clear definition of wtf this is doing. We could save about 10 minutes off of searching for other peoples files and comparing them with our situation. Also I still don't know what "None" means. Can you tell me? After endless searching I think I know what the "Left" "Right" option means. But still not definately. I have seen them with "Up" and "Down" so can when people post please help everyone out with some definitoins of what things do. I have seen many people doing this and I love it. As a programmer this is neccessary for others to read your code and understand what it does. I know we aren't all programmers, but let's just get into good practice. if we can all start explaining what things do we can help everyone out at the same time. Even ourselves!! That's what linux is all about. Even for the new ones. Sorry for the complaining, but I have been searching through Linuxquestions.org for a while and hate when I come across something so easy, but so hard. Only three lines of code, yet it is taking me 3 hours now to figure out what the code is doing. Please help!!!!!!

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no one wrote that it just works for newly started apps!!!!!

i haad opera running while testing the various combinations of the imwheelrc configurationand it never worked...

the wheel just scrolled 1 line up and down and the side buttons several lines up and down....

so it was a kind of power wheeling option :PPP


well, then accidently i closed opera, reopened it and it worked :/


now i dont dare to touch anything, as long as it is working :P

but at all im damn happy about it



now if i also get gdesklets working this night, i wont regret not having slept :P

Has anyone gotten this to work with an MS Explorer Trackball? I have 7 buttons and I've tried every idea in this thread and it still won't work.

OS: Fedora Core 1

Right now, when I first start X, my scroll wheel won't work. If I use the scroll wheel, it highlights text in the window I'm in. The forward/backward buttons scroll the page up and down for some reason.

The scroll wheel won't work until I do the xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"

Once I do that, the side buttons stop scrolling and do not respond. I have imwheel installed as required and it seems nothing will make this work. I've tried the 2 different versions of imwheel and all the different ideas for settings in the config.

I also have an MS Explorer Trackball (1.0) plugged into a USB port and am having similar trouble.

The buttons all work, but the 3rd (clicking the wheel), 4th and 5th (back and forward in MSIE) buttons all act like the primary mouse button (#1) in all GNOME based browsers. I've gone through this entire thread and done all the configs suggested. The result is that the buttons are all active now and the scroll wheel works.

Mandrake 9.0
XFree86 4.2.1
imwheel 1.0.0pre5

XF86Config-4
# Identifier and driver

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
Option "Buttons" "7"

The line "xmodmap -e 'pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5'" appears in two different files
/etc/X11/xinit.d/mouse_buttons
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

The line "imwheel -k -f -b 0067" appears only in my xinitrc (above path)
*NOTE: I have tried -p instead of -f, as well as "67" and 4567 instead of 0067 with no affect.

imwheelrc has this near the beginning of the file (should it be near the end of the file?):
".*"
None, Left, Alt_R|Left
None, Right, Alt_R|Right
*NOTE: I have tried Up, Alt-R|Left; Up, Alt_L|Left; and Left, Alt_L|Left combos to no avail.

I do agree with pele_smk (post #108) that there is a serious lack of definition for any of this stuff. I've checked with a few Linux books, Mandrake's online documentation, the docs and man pages that came with imwheel and can find no definitions of what these different settings do. I would really appreciate any education anyone out there has to offer on this stuff.

I have configured my mouse which is an v1.0 and It works in Conquerer browser, but not in Mozilla, which blows because I use Mozilla. guess I have to do it the long way and press back.Any gotten it to work with Mozilla if so how? I'm using Slack9.1 kernel 2.6

I have yet to get imwheel to work.

I followed the instructions but both my mouse side buttons are always bound to Page Up.

Fedora Core 1.
Microsoft Intellimouse Optical.

See This.

I'm sorry to dredge up old threads, but I just bought the Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer (2.0 I think), as it got some ncie reviews.

I love how it works, but I'm having a slight problem, xev doesn't recognise the side buttons after doing a "xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 6 7", or when doing a xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5". When doing the latter, my PC beeps at me when I scroll the wheel (as well as not functioning), the foremost however allows it to work just fine, but neither one get any input in xev.

Having this buttons isn't critical, but I'd really like to have them.

Thanks!

BTW, didn't see this many pages in this thread.

And I've got the reciver plugged into PS/2, with "explorerps/2" driver in xf86, under FC1.

OK, forgot one thing: tilting scroll wheel.

The scroll wheel tilts left and right but does not register in xev, any ideas?

I'm also wondering whether or not this option in exists: Option "YAxisMapping" "x x"

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Hi guys,

that's really a great and interesting threat. But unfortunatly I'm facing the same problem Kupo has. I also have Logitechs MouseMan Dual Optical with 4 Buttons (Left, Right, Wheel, left Side). If ayone figured out how to use the left side Button, any advice would be appreciated. I finally would like to use the left Button as the normal Back-Button and the Wheel-Button to start Midnight Commander (need that the hole day =)). I'm running Mandrake 9.2 with Kernel 2.4.22 and the Mouse via USB.

Thanks for your help =).

For anyone that downloads the newer 1.0.0pre5 version of imwheel, there are a few important changes to the above instructions:

1) Your ~/.imwheelrc file should look like this:
(note 'Left' and 'Right' instead of 'Up' and 'Down')


2) The startup script that invokes imwheel should look like this:
(note the added zeroes in front of "67")

Without the above changes, the side buttons will work as "page up" and "page down" instead of "forward" and "back".

I found these hints at the very bottom of the IMWheel website.

OK, it works now, but instead of making your thumb buttons work as forward/back, is it possible to map a thumb button as the mouse's middle button? The MMB on this mouse is too stiff to use as a navigational control in blender, so I need to be able to map an easier to use button to MMB.

Thanks.

Please can anyone tell me if they are able to use extra mouse buttons in games.

I am an avid AAO:linux fan and want to know if extra mouse buttons will bind to ingame commands.

Thanks