Using a logitech mx700 with scrollwheel _and_ thumb buttons

André-Philippe Paquet appaquet at gmail.com
Wed Jul 6 12:22:01 GMT 2005


Sorry, I didn't see your last message! Start xwindows with your favorite wm 
and in a terminal, run:
imwheel -b "67" &
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"

 If it doesn't work, it may be something else. I just redid the whole 
process I told and it works here.

Andre-Philippe
On 7/5/05, Joe Schmoe <non_secure at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Andre,
> 
> --- André-Philippe Paquet <appaquet at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > My MX500 is working just fine. Here what I do:
> >
> > - Install imwheel (/usr/ports/x11/imwheel)
> >
> >
> > - Add this to ~/.imwheelrc
> >
> > ".*"
> > None, Up, Alt_L|Left,1
> > None, Down, Alt_L|Right,1
> >
> > "(null)"
> > None, Up, Alt_L|Left,1
> > None, Down, Alt_L|Right,1
> >
> >
> > - In my x.org <http://x.org> <http://x.org> file.. For the
> > InputDevice section:
> >
> > Option "Buttons" "7"
> > Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
> >
> > - Finaly, I run these two commands on Xwindows
> > start:
> >
> > imwheel -b "67" &
> > xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
> 
> 
> Nope. I reproduced these same settings _exactly_, and
> they produce the same results.
> 
> With your settings above, the scroll wheel works fine,
> and the two thumb buttons each cause the web page to
> scroll very slightly downward. This is the same thing
> they did with all the other different configurations I
> tried.
> 
> Why is using mouse thumb buttons under FreeBSD _rocket
> science_ ? Why is this a _hard problem_ ?
> 
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