On Tue, 19 May 2015 11:04:52 +0200 Sven Arvidsson <s...@whiz.se> wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 08:49 +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > I bought one of these mice yesterday, it's comfortable, but > > exhibiting strange behaviour. It has two thumb buttons, like the > > mouse I had before, but they're not mapped to button presses, but > > to keyboard events. > > Hi, > > You bought a mouse that's also a keyboard! Apparently these are more > or less hard-wired to work with Windows 8. Argh. Why the fsck can't these people just build hardware that works the way it's supposed to? > You could set up shortcuts or commands for those key combinations, > but I guess you would get the same keybindings for the normal > keyboard too. Yes. Losing Super_L I could live with, but losing "d" would be an issue. > There does seem to be some kind of other workaround though, > http://superuser.com/questions/676306/logitech-m560-mouse-on-linux-sends-messed-up-input-events > > (see the link to the redhat bugzilla too) The RH link was very helpful. In short: Create "/etc/udev/hwdb.d/90-logitech-m-545.hwdb" with following: # Logitech M545 keyboard:usb:v046DpC52B* KEYBOARD_KEY_70007=back KEYBOARD_KEY_700E7=forward Then: udevadm hwdb --update Unplug the receiver and plug it in again, and it works the way $DEITY intended. Thanks a lot for the link, I didn't notice the RH link when I did my searches. I also learned something new about udev today :) > In the long run, it's probably easier to have it replaced... It would also be the correct thing to do, to not encourage them further to make broken hardware, but as I mentioned it would be a big hassle. The mouse itself is also quite nice. Now that it works the way I want it to, I'm not going to bother. But I am going to send Logitech customer support an angry email and inform them that they have just lost a customer they've had for decades. Hopefully the above will help someone else if they face the same problem. Thanks again. Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm positive."
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