On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 2:19 PM Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/3/18 12:25 AM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > mouse/keyboard settings are part of the "Input Devices" Settings module. > > > > So K Menu -> System Settings -> Input devices. There's a tab for mouse > > settings on the left. > > Mouse Settings does not appear to have a setting covering my need. In > the General tab, here is Button Order -- right handed or left handed, > Reverse scroll direction, and Icons. But nothing about a third button. > The Advanced tab doesn't address a third button, either. And the Mouse > Navigation tab only offers Move pointer with keyboard (using the num pad). > > It's a minor annoyance I can live with for the most part, but it would > be nice to have that functionality back. When I plug in a mouse with a > wheel, it performs as expected, but in the living room there isn't a > place to use a mouse. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > I did something similar recently, using xinput. # get the list of your X input devices xinput --list # get info on whichever one is your pointing device, including button labels xinput --list [id] # get the available properties xinput --list-props [id] # set the property for the device, property and button xinput set-prop [id] [prop] [button] In my case I wanted to make the red button on the side of my trackball be a drag-lock button, so my command was: xinput set-prop 'PS2++ Logitech TrackMan' 'libinput Drag Lock Buttons' 8 1 I put this in my .bash_aliases file, which (on my system) is called from .bashrc on startup. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
