On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 18:47, Jonathan Charnas wrote:
> Hi all
> I was replying to some questions for the E-Users list, and I thought I
> might just type another email for the list.
> I am the happy possessor of a MS Trackball Explorer. Yes, I do like Linux,
> but MS still makes good hardware, nothing wrong with that, only windows
> really gets on my nerves.
> The trackball has two extra buttons in addition to the two+wheel of a
> regular mouse.
> I was looking around on google, trying to figure out how to configure
> those buttons for X, or for E as a matter of fact.
What you want is a three step process: get the buttons recognized in
XF86Config and xmodmap, and then have them do stuff in E.
In XF86Config, configure a driver. From the description you give, I
think the example below matches your mouse model. Just tweak it if you
connect through a different device, or if the scroll wheel maps to
different buttons (for example changing "ZAxisMapping" to "4 5"):
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
Option "Buttons" "7"
EndSection
Then add have xmodmap set the following: "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5". You
do this with an xmodmap -e command in xinitrc (before the line that
starts E) or put it in your ~/.Xmodmap if you have a bunch of keys to
remap.
Making the buttons work in E is easy. Just put __BUTTON and then the
number in keybindings.cfg, like you would with the first 3.
You may also want to check out the imwheel utility
(http://jcatki.no-ip.org/imwheel/) to use the scroll wheel in old apps.
It allows you to map scroll actions to any key combination on a per-app
basis.
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