I could use help in configuring XF86 to use the logitech cordless
mouseman wheel. In particular I have been unable to get the side
button (button 4) to work at all.
I went to the homepage and read docs for mouse support. In particular
I read ``configuration examples''. The description of the logitech
mouseman+ matched my mouse except of course that mine has a wheel.
However, MouseManPlusPS/2 works very differently for this mouse. The
side button generates no X activity (at least xev finds none) and only
one direction of the wheel works. I used the
specification below (from the ``configuration examples'').
I have found IMPS/2 to be somewhat better as the wheel works fine, but
still xev reports nothing when the side button is pushed. I also
tried "protocol" "auto" with no success. I have not been able to find
a list of the xxxxPS/2 protocols.
I should note that the side button seems dead both before and after
the xmodmap command below.
I have three mice (all the same) and the behavior is common to all. I
tried one under windows and the side button was recognized.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
allan
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Logitech MouseMan+ has 4 buttons and a wheel. The following example
makes the wheel movement available as the button 5 and 6.
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "MouseMan+"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Protocol" "MouseManPlusPS/2"
Option "Buttons" "6"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "5 6"
EndSection
You can change button number assignment using the xmodmap command
AFTER you start the X server with the above configuration. You may not
like to use the wheel as the button 2 and rather want the side button
(button 4) act like the button 2. You may also want to map the wheel
movement to the button 4 and 5. This can be done by the following
command:
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 6 3 2 4 5"
After this command is run, the correspondence between the buttons and
button numbers will be as shown in the following table.
Physical Buttons Reported as:
------------------------------------
1 Left Button Button 1
2 Wheel Button Button 6
3 Right Button Button 3
4 Side Button Button 2
5 Wheel Negative Move Button 4
6 Wheel Positive Move Button 5
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