mouse problem

gts6 · 05-17-2006, 02:40 PM

i have a 5 button mouse. i had it configured properly with the side buttons to browse forward and backward in firefox.

it was working fine for months until about 2 weeks ago, when i upgraded my computer from SUSE 9.0 to 10.0

after finishing, the mouse wouldnt work at all, so i switched the setting to the IMPS2 which is what it used to be on 9.0, somehow during the upgrade , it got changed.

the mouse functioned again but still will not recognize the side buttons..

i checked in the x11 config files, and made the correct modifications to what they were before, the correct configurations are still there with the buttons=7 and zaxis setting..

and imwheel and xmodmap are correct with the same setting as before..

but side buttons still will not work..

does SUSE 10.0 use a different file to keep the configurations for the mouse than 9.0 did? or has a parameter that worked in 9 been rendered invalid in 10.0?

i have tried just about everything i could think of.
any help would be appreciated..

SweetLou · 05-17-2006, 05:55 PM

Did SUSE change from XFree86 to Xorg? If so, that happened to me also. It took me awhile but I got it the way I like it by editing Xorg.conf to:

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"CorePointer"
	Option		"Device"	"/dev/input/mice"
	Option		"Protocol"	"ExplorerPS/2"
	Option		"Buttons"	"5"
	Option		"ZAxisMapping"	"4 5"
	Option 		"ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7"
EndSection

For imwheelrc, I have:

Code:

".*"
 None, Left,   Alt_L|Left
 None, Right, Alt_L|Right
 None, Up, Page_Up
 None, Down, Page_Down

Don't use xmodmap. I do it a little different than others so that I can scroll by pages in Opera, Nautilus and other apps.

gts6 · 05-17-2006, 07:04 PM

suse did change to Xorg. my xorg.conf i did change to my old settings to no avail already. but i notice yours is similar but different, i am gonna change mine now and give it a shot. i dont have the buttonmapping option in my current config, will try now.

thanks

gts6 · 05-17-2006, 07:38 PM

still not working, unfortunately..
any other ideas?

i have to mess around with it some more

SweetLou · 05-17-2006, 08:59 PM

Did you restart X after making the changes? Did you start imwheel?
I have imwheel start automatically in Gnome with no arguements.
imwheel,
not imwheel -k -b "67"

gts6 · 05-18-2006, 09:10 AM

i have restarted x many, MANY times while changing these settings LOL

i am at work now, so i cant try anything else out now, but will mess around with it some more when i get home.. but thanks for showing me how you have yours working, it could come in handy later as an option to use some of those settings.

after looking back now at your xorg.conf file, i changed mine to those settings except for the protocol, i left mine at imps2, i wonder if i switch it to explorer if it will make a difference, guess i will have to try that next when i get home at lunch (i am lucky enough to work 3 blocks from home

SweetLou · 05-18-2006, 12:00 PM

Yes, the protocol will matter.

gts6 · 05-18-2006, 01:29 PM

after changing the protocol, the settings you gave still didnt work. but after i switched the settings to this below:

Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7 4 5"

after that it did work. i had tried this setting a few times during testing settings, and it didnt work before, so i think my problem all along may have just been the protocol set wrong..

so it is now working fine, thank you for your help..

do you know what the setting is in imwheel to get the middle button click to close a tab in firefox? if this could be done, life will be just perfect.

SweetLou · 05-18-2006, 02:10 PM

That is strange, that is how mine used to be in XFree86, but I had to change it to the way I have it for xorg.
You don't need to change anything for imwheel. In Firefox's location bar type:
about:config
Do a filter search for: middle
You will see a setting named: middlemouse.contentLoadURL
Change this value to false. The middle mouse click on a tab should now close the tab.
Double clicking on the setting should change it to false.

gts6 · 05-18-2006, 02:58 PM

i would like to be able to click the middle button anywhere on the open page to close that tab, not have to drag mouse to top and click on the tab to close it. if i drag the mouse to the top where the tabs are, i may as well just click the close tab X while its there.

i think the firefox keystroke for closing a tab is CTRL+W, but how would i code that in the imwheelrc for the middle button?

SweetLou · 05-19-2006, 02:54 AM

Oh, I see what you are saying. I don't have the x on tabs.
What you will need to do is change your .imwheelrc file for firefox. I am not willing to try these for you, you will need to learn on your own.
Besides the configuration I mention above ad another to your .imwheelrc. I think for firefox you will put something like
"mozilla"

then map button 2 on your mouse to cntl+w
imwheel used to come with a sample configuration, you can look through that to understand what to do.

gts6 · 05-19-2006, 10:28 AM

the problem with that is all the sample configs in the imwheelrc help file have examples using all the other buttons, but not the middle one, i dont know how to address it. i know what up, dowm,left, and right are, but when i use the word "MIDDLE" it throws an error when loading imwheel. says middle is not valid or something, forgot the exact message.

is there guide somewhere that shows good info about configuring the imwheelrc? i tried searching on google, but keep coming up with the same exact one i already have that is in the man file. and the one in the man file is pretty cryptic in some areas, too.

SweetLou · 05-19-2006, 11:33 AM

I also searched for more info when I was trying to configure my mouse and could not find any really good documentation. Sorry about that.