6 Sep
2017
6 Sep
'17
8:54 a.m.
Hi Greg!
Kensington Expert Mouse:
Lots of info on the net about this mouse, have tried modifying xorg,
.xinitrc, .xmodmap per instructions, button mapping code.
No changes to the button assignment. Control center has a three button
mouse tool, it works for 3 of the 4 buttons.
I happen to use the same mouse :-)
The 4th button is button 8, you can use "xev" or "xbindkeys -k" to
verify. I have used xbindkeys to map 4th button to "nextDesktop":
# ~/.xbindkeysrc
#BUTTON8
"dcop twin KWinInterface nextDesktop"
b:8
You can also use "xinput" to modify the button assignment - I prefer this method
to fiddling with Xorg settings. Here is an example from my .xinitrc for Aiptec tablet,
changes button 1 to button 13:
# AIPTEK SlimTablet Pendown (Button 1) auf Button 13 mappen
ID=$(xinput list|grep WALTOP|sed 's/^.*=\([0-9]*\).*$/\1/')
xinput set-button-map $ID 13
For Kensington to swap button 8 and button 4:
$ xinput set-button-map $(xinput list | grep "Kensington Expert Mouse" | sed
's/^.*=\([0-9]*\).*$/\1/') 1 2 3 8 5 6 7 4
More details about your mouse - funny that it claimes to have 12 buttons:
$ xinput list --long $(xinput list | grep "Kensington Expert Mouse" | sed
's/^.*=\([0-9]*\).*$/\1/')
Nik
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