hello everyone.
i have an 5-button MS intelliOptical mouse.. so i configured the xorg.conf as:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"

then when i run kde, i have to run the command from console
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5" and the mouse works properly..
however i would like to add this command in some kde startup script to do this automatically everytime i startx.

searchin the forums i found :
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...+mouse+buttons
which basically says that i should put the command in a ~/.xsession file but i dont have that file, nor creating it help me (note that i didnt forget to invoke the bash shell b4 typing in the xmodmap command).

and also:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...+mouse+buttons
where it said to place the xmodmap command in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/Xmodmap which doesn't exist either.

where should i place the command????
thank you for your help
nass

ps im running slackware 10.2

If you are using kde, the easiest place to put it is in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.kde.

My understanding is that ~/.xsession is only used if full control of the X startup is passed to that file. Since it's the above script that is called when you start kde, your ~/.xsession is ignored, as far as I can tell.

here is my xinitrc.kde:
#!/bin/sh
# $XConsortium: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.4 91/08/22 11:41:34 rws Exp $

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f $userresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $userresources
fi

if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
xmodmap $usermodmap # the default
fi
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"


# Start the window manager:
startkde

I also tried replacing the "xmodmap $usermodmap # the default" with "xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"" and run it within the if statement.. no luck

it seems that i have to run it after kde has started. (perhaps after the "startkde" line) but startkde is binary so it can't be tweaked. You know of any one script that is run once the session has started?
nass

Hmm, that's odd, that should have worked. I wonder if kde changes the pointer config? It shouldn't but you never know. One thing you could try is to put it in a script in ~/.kde/Autostart/. I assume that kde will run any script in there when it starts.