5 button wheel mouse (tried all forums)

paste your XF86Config file here so we can look at it and paste your xinit file here also plus your imwheelrc

Sure thing, I'll just give you the mouse part of my XF68Config....

XF86Config

Section "InputDevice"


# Identifier and driver

Identifier "mouse1"
Driver "mouse"

# On platforms where PnP mouse detection is supported the following
# protocol setting can be used when using a newer PnP mouse:

#Option "Protocol" "mouse"

# The available mouse protocols types that you can set below are:
# Auto BusMouse GlidePoint GlidePointPS/2 IntelliMouse IMPS/2
# Logitech Microsoft MMHitTab MMSeries Mouseman MouseManPlusPS/2
# MouseSystems NetMousePS/2 NetScrollPS/2 OSMouse PS/2 SysMouse
# ThinkingMouse ThinkingMousePS/2 Xqueue
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"

# The mouse device. The device is normally set to /dev/mouse,
# which is usually a symbolic link to the real device.

Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
# Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
# Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
# Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS1"

# When using XQUEUE, comment out the above two lines, and uncomment
# the following line.

# Option "Protocol" "Xqueue"

# Baudrate and SampleRate are only for some Logitech mice. In
# almost every case these lines should be omitted.

# Option "BaudRate" "9600"
# Option "SampleRate" "150"

# Emulate3Buttons is an option for 2-button Microsoft mice
# Emulate3Timeout is the timeout in milliseconds (default is 50ms)

#Option "Emulate3Buttons"
#Option "Emulate3Timeout" "300"
#Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7 "

# ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice

#Option "ChordMiddle"
#Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7 "

Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"

EndSection

.xinitrc

#!/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
fi

# Start the window manager:
startkde

/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"

.imwheelrc

".*"
4, Left, Alt_L|Left
5, Right, Alt_L|Right

Thanks guys.

Hi, i have a MX310 with 6 buttons plus the scroll wheel. All my buttons work correctly but i don't know how i assign them to do something i want. Or neither how i make my scroll wheel actualy scroll the page. Any tip?

so i need to edit only /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and add xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5", it'll work? what do i set it to for a 3 button mouse (3rd button is the wheel's click). i haven't installed imwheel or anything of the sort. do i need to for this functionality?

if you dont have forward/backward buttons on your mouse then you only need to configure 5 buttons instead of 7, so replace the 6 and 7 with 4 and 5, and you shouldnt have to install imwheelrc

Originally posted by Wassman Sure thing, I'll just give you the mouse part of my XF68Config.... XF86Config Section "InputDevice" <trimmed for clarity> # Identifier and driver Identifier "mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "Buttons" "7" Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" EndSection .xinitrc <trimmed for clarity> # Start the window manager: startkde /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5" .imwheelrc ".*" 4, Left, Alt_L|Left 5, Right, Alt_L|Right Thanks guys.

Wassman:

I dont see a call to imwheel... add this line just above the call to xmodmap:

imwheel -k -f -b "0067"

and my ~/.imwheelrc looks a little different:

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

I have the same mouse & it all works for me...

Thanks bnice. I'll give that a shot. Do you have these files (.imwheelrc and the like) in your .kde/Autostart or just in your home directory?

Home directory - hidden (dot) files

~/.xinitrc
~/.imwheelrc

I did what you said bnice, and it doesn't even run the xmodmap command at startup. I gots to do it manually. Hrm... interesting indeed...

last section of my ~/.xinitrc:

 imwheel -k -f -b "0067"

 xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
# Start the window manager:
startkde

As you can see, I call xmodmap & imwheel *before* calling startkde

otherwise they don't get called until startkde terminates, which is when you exit X.

try moving them

Edit: typo

bnice, that worked quite well thank you. So far it works awsome save for it's backwards on boot. Mouse wheel is back foward and thumbbuttons are up down. But to fix this I just hit the xmodmap command in to the konsole and it works fine. I thank you most kindly for your help.

if you boot straight into X, rather than the command prompt, you can put the xmodmap command in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.whatever you use... in my case it's xinitrc.kde

here's the error i got when i added 'xmodmap -e pointer = "1 2 3 4 5"' to my-home/.xinitrc:

xmodmap:  commandline:0:  bad buttons input line
xmodmap:  unable to open file '=' for reading
xmodmap:  unable to open file '1 2 3 4 5' for reading
xmodmap:  3 errors encountered, aborting.

abs, put the "" around pointer too like this:

xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 4 5"

nope, doesn't work either. but it doesn't give the error messages