Greg M 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 am thinking TDM does not use .xinitrc or .xmodmap.what is the TDE way ?
xorg.conf example
Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Buttons" "8" Option "ButtonMapping" "1 8 3 2"
.xmodmap : pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 pointer = 1 8 3 2
.xinitrc: autocutsel -fork & autocutsel -selection PRIMARY -fork & xmodmap ~/.xmodmap
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
cool, thank you.
I saw the xbindkeysrc mentioned, a way forward.
Greg M On 09/06/2017 12:54 AM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
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
On 09/06/2017 10:51 AM, Greg Madden wrote:
cool, thank you.
I saw the xbindkeysrc mentioned, a way forward.
Greg M On 09/06/2017 12:54 AM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
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
Its working, I had to fiddle with the button mapping sequence. I swapped 2 & 4, added your .xbindkeysrc, ended up with 1 8 3 4 5 6 7 2, I wanted my middle button on 4 and I get a fourth button I had not used.
According to xinput: Buttons supported: 8 Button labels: "Button Left" "Button Middle" "Button Right" "Button Wheel Up" "Button Wheel Down" "Button Horiz Wheel Left" "Button Horiz Wheel Right" "Button Side"
greg
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