Assigning functions to Turbo Mouse buttons/multi mice buttons (imwheel & X11)

[Andrew Zschetzsche]

So how would one get a button to be a double-click action?

Andy Zschetzsche


On 12/29/04 11:42 AM, "Eric Dunbar" <eric.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all, I posted this to the Ubuntu forums re getting all of my Turbo
> Mouse's buttons working (only half succeeded). I don't know if there's
> an elegant solution to this problem on YDL but I thought I'd post my
> solution here as well, in case someone else has a Turbo Mouse.
> 
> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 09:18:24 -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:
>> Keywords: X11, X.org, configure mouse buttons, assign mouse buttons,
>> assign actions to mouse buttons, Kensington Turbo Mouse, multi button
>> mouse mice, five button mouse mice, imwheel, Intellimouse Intelli
>> Mouse.
>> 
>>> On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 10:25:33PM -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:
>>> 
>>>> So, my questions is, how do I get GNOME to assign functions to
>>>> particular mouse buttons? I have  no use for standard Linux 3rd & 4th
>>>> button functionality so I'd prefer to reassign them (to something like
>>>> ctrl pageup/down).
> 
> <http://www.google.com/search?q=configure+x11+mouse+buttons&btnG=Search&hl=en&
> lr=>
> 
> <https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/IntellimouseMousemanBackForwardButtons>
> <http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Computing/ExtraMouseButtons>
> 
> I used these wikis to get part of my Kensington Turbo Mouse Pro working.
> 
> I have the two bottom buttons as per usual (left & right clicks), the
> scroll-wheel click is the middle click and the two top buttons are now
> set up to ctrl-page up and ctrl-page-down in FireFox. The top row of
> six buttons still cannot be controlled (at least, I haven't figured
> out how to do so).
> 
> NOTE: You do not necessarily have to install imwheel to get the two
> top buttons to be useful! If you modify the xorg.conf (aka
> XF86Config-4) file to what I have here you STILL can use those buttons
> in FireFox -- they default to Back/Forward in the browser history!
> 
> Comments:
> The key is to install imwheel. It's available through Synaptic (GUI
> front-end for apt-get). Do that first.
> 
> Then, you'll have to modify your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to register
> that your mouse is more than the "standard" "5" buttons (aka
> XF86Config-4 if you're still running the "old" x11 system).
> 
> FYI A standard 2 (left, right) + 1 (middle click/scroll wheel click) +
> scroll wheel mouse is actually a five button mouse from X11's
> perspective! The scroll wheel counts as mouse buttons 4 and 5.
> 
> Then, you'll have to modify your /etc/X11/imwheel/imwheelrc or
> ~/.imwheelrc files to tell imwheel what to do with a mouse click in
> each app (see the above Wikis for examples of how to structure your
> imwheelrc or .imwheelrc file).
> 
> FYI If you go the ~/.imwheelrc route it means that you can customise
> the imwheel behaviour for each user on the system.
> 
> Then, (if desired) you have to tell X11 to run imwheel whenever X11 is
> started (modifying /etc/X11/Xsession.d/60imwheel_start-imwheel _and_
> changing IMWHEEL_START=0 to =1 in /etc/X11/imwheel/startup.conf).
> 
> This is what the relevant portion of my xorg.conf file looks like:
> Section "InputDevice"
>        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
>        Driver          "mouse"
>        Option          "CorePointer"
>        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
>        Option          "Protocol"              "ExplorerPS/2"
>        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "false"
>        Option          "Buttons"               "7"
>        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "6 7"
> EndSection
> 
> And my .imwheelrc looks like:
> "^Firefox-bin$"
> # Flip between browser tabs
> None, Left, Control_L|Page_Up
> None, Right, Control_L|Page_Down
> 
> Eric
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