I need an alternative to imwheel

davidguygc · 05-22-2007, 12:16 AM

Hi, I am running Beryl, and it seems as though imwheel does not work with it. I have a Microsoft intellimouse, and I need the side buttons working. I am using 1.0.0pre12. Any suggestions will help.

HappyTux · 05-22-2007, 01:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by davidguygc

Hi, I am running Beryl, and it seems as though imwheel does not work with it. I have a Microsoft intellimouse, and I need the side buttons working. I am using 1.0.0pre12. Any suggestions will help.

Take a look at xbindkeys I use the below for my forward and back buttons to work.

Code:

>$ cat .xbindkeysrc
"xvkbd -xsendevent -text "\[Alt_L]\[Left]""
b:8
"xvkbd -xsendevent -text "\[Alt_L]\[Right]""
b:9

Changing of course to what your button numbers are as reported by xev, also I put xbindkeys on a line by itself in my ~/.bashrc so it gets started on every login.

davidguygc · 05-22-2007, 05:07 PM

I never heard of xbindkeys, is it something I need to download or something that is built into Beryl?

HappyTux · 05-22-2007, 05:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by davidguygc

I never heard of xbindkeys, is it something I need to download or something that is built into Beryl?

It is a package that you need to install if it is available in your distro otherwise you would need to download/compile, the description of it from the .deb package.

Code:

apt-cache show xbindkeys
Package: xbindkeys
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 152
Maintainer: Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.7.1-1.1
Depends: guile-1.6-libs, libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), libx11-6
Suggests: wish, xbindkeys-config
Filename: pool/main/x/xbindkeys/xbindkeys_1.7.1-1.1_amd64.deb
Size: 30054
MD5sum: 1ffdf6474e8c1f14b0be7f2c4d8b0aee
SHA1: edd3d56399a9df056b38fc413451ad31e7c5e200
SHA256: e06600d4a071fe038bd530c9b540d62b290f9e6979ca7dafb4dea4335e3bb602
Description: Associate a combination of keys or mouse buttons with a shell command
 xbindkeys is a program that allows you to launch shell commands with
 your keyboard or your mouse under X Window.
 It links commands to keys or mouse buttons, using a configuration file.
 It's independent of the window manager and can capture all keyboard keys
 (ex: Power, Wake...).
Tag: hardware::input, interface::daemon, interface::x11, role::program, scope::utility, use::configuring, x11::application