Using a logitech mx700 with scrollwheel _and_ thumb buttons

[André-Philippe Paquet]

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/> 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"



 It works #1 with my logitech MX500 mouse (I tested on xfce4 and kde). The 
only problem I have is that my app button is not working but I wasn't using 
it in windows anyway so I don't need it. The tumbs buttons are working #1 in 
Firefox and Konqueror.

André-Philippe Paquet

On 5/26/05, Joe Schmoe <non_secure at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a logitech mx700 - it has a scrollwheel and two
> thumb buttons (designed for forward and back in your
> browser) as well as some other launch button on the
> top that I guess is for launching an app.
> 
> I am using FBSD 5.4-RELEASE with xorg installed from
> the ports tree.
> 
> I have tried many, many different combinations of
> settings in /etc/rc.conf, xorg.conf and .xinitrc. The
> results are always the same:
> 
> - I can use the scrollwheel just fine
> - first three mouse buttons work just fine
> - the other three (two thumb buttons and the app
> button) _always_ generate the same mousebutton event
> 
> So for instance, at first I had:
> 
> moused_flags="-z 4" in /etc/rc.conf
> 
> and I had:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Mouse0"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "auto"
> Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
> Option "Buttons" "7"
> EndSection
> 
> in my xorg.conf
> 
> and I had:
> 
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 3 2 4 5 6 7"
> 
> in my .xinitrc
> 
> Checking button events in xev, under this config,
> shows that upwheel is 4, downwheel is 5 (and yes, the
> wheel worked) and all three other buttons (two thumbs
> and app button) were all button 5.
> 
> so then I removed the -z line from /etc/rc.conf, and
> added this to my xorg.conf:
> 
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
> 
> Same behavior. wheel works, the other three are all
> event button 5.
> 
> So the only semi-success I had was when I changed my
> ZAxisMapping line to:
> 
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
> 
> When I did this, wheelup is 4, wheeldown is 5, the
> little pseudo buttons above and below the wheel now
> create the following combo events of 6,4 and 5,5
> respectively, and my two thumb buttons and app button
> now all produce button 7.
> 
> -----
> 
> So what can I do here ? No matter how I rearrange my
> settings, the two thumb buttons and the app button
> always produce the same button event. Whether it is 5
> or 7, it is always the same.
> 
> Does anyone have a Logitech mx700 mouse, in FreeBSD
> 5.x, with xorg, running properly with the wheel and
> the thumb buttons ?
> 
> thanks, jarsh
> 
> 
> 
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