On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Peter Hutterer wrote: > Excerpts from Tom Horsley's message of Sun Sep 20 09:52:17 +1000 2009: >> OK, I've been trying to understand the "official" new way to configure >> my trackball for draglock and to shuffle buttons around to my liking, >> and while I can tell from web searches that the "xinput" tool may indeed >> be the way to do this, I am left completely bumfuzzled by how the heck >> I am supposed to use it. The man page is utterly cryptic and many hours of >> web searches have turned up zero examples that might give me a hint. >> Or if the xinput tool isn't really what I want, what is the tool I want? > > xinput may be used to configure devices at runtime, yes. It's like a swiss > army knife though and while quite universally applicable for this not the > best user interface. Ideally, the desktop environments will configure this > stuff soon but until then: > > xinput --set-int-prop "device name" "property name" <format> <value> <value> > ....
As someone who doesn't use a desktop environment, but does use Fedora, I dump my xinput commands into /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/46-SpaceNavigator-settings.sh ...because I have a SpaceNavigator pointing device. I also have a USB keyboard that keeps dropping out on me, so I have a special scrip tfor configuring that too. HTH, --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Name: Tim Nelson | Because the Creator is, | | E-mail: wayl...@wayland.id.au | I am | --------------------------------------------------------------------- ----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK---- Version 3.12 GCS d+++ s+: a- C++$ U+++$ P+++$ L+++ E- W+ N+ w--- V- PE(+) Y+>++ PGP->+++ R(+) !tv b++ DI++++ D G+ e++>++++ h! y- -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg