Trackball, extra buttons, and X - I've lost something

[Louis LeBlanc]

I think I have it partly figured out.  I had to change the xmodmap
command in .xsession to this:
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"

But I kept the ZAxisMapping at 6 and 7.

Now xev shows the side buttons registering at 6 and 7, but I still
can't seem to get them working right through Fvwm.  At least I have
scrolling without annoying popup menus.

I'll try switching the ZAxisMapping and the xmodmap to see if I can
get a change.

Thanks
Lou


On 01/13/05 07:29 PM, Mark Beaver sat at the `puter and typed:
> In my experience with these leave the 4 5 as your ZAxisMapping and try it
> should keep your wheel working.
> 
> I'm not sure how to get the other two to work though, I've always had issues
> with that.
> 
> 
> Mark Beaver
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Louis LeBlanc
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 7:08 PM
> To: FreeBSD Questions
> Subject: Trackball, extra buttons, and X - I've lost something
> 
> Ok, I've finally broken down and bought myself one of those fancy
> Microsoft thumbball thingys.  I got tired of tracking my mouse around
> on a 5"X5" square, which is exactly the amount of free space on my
> desk right now.
> 
> Anyway, since Microsoft is a pretty good accessory company I figured
> I'd check their thumbball out.  (I didn't say they were a good
> software company)
> 
> I got the following immediately after plugging in:
> Jan 13 17:07:31 keyslapper kernel: ums0: Microsoft Microsoft Trackball
> Optical®, rev 1.10/1.21, addr 2, iclass 3/1
> Jan 13 17:07:31 keyslapper kernel: ums0: 5 buttons and Z dir.
> 
> The only problem is that it has 5 buttons including the button wheel.
> 
> Give a man a hammer, he'll want to use it right?
> 
> Well, now I've got these two new hammers, and I can't get them
> working quite right.
> 
> I've got the following in xorg.conf:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
>         Driver      "mouse"
>         Option      "Protocol" "auto"
>         Option      "Device" "/dev/ums0"
>         Option      "Buttons"      "7"
>         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
> EndSection
> 
> 
> This is what I used to have:
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
>         Driver      "mouse"
>         Option      "Protocol" "auto"
>         Option      "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
>         Option      "Buttons"      "5"
>         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
> 
> And I've restarted Xorg, and xev shows the proper button presses for
> the left (button 1) and right (button 3) buttons, wheel press (button
> 2), and weel scrolls (buttons 4 and 5).  It also shows events for the
> side buttons, 6 and 7.
> 
> I have the comand `xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 6 7"` in my
> ~/.xinitrc to set the buttons up, but I'm still getting odd behavior
> when I roll the wheel.
> 
> So what's this strange behavior?  Well, every time I roll the mouse
> wheel, I get the Fvwm Builtin menu.  I tried setting a Nop action in
> the Fvwm mouse events config for buttons 6 and 7, but that breaks
> scrolling with the wheel.  Now I can't seem to get scrolling back.  So
> I need to figure out how to stop the menu popup without breaking the
> scrolling.  Or at least get the scrolling back.
> 
> I've tried this with and without moused, but no change.  Naturally,
> I change the Device above to /dev/sysmouse, and moused polls from
> /dev/usm0.
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 5.3 RELEASE, Xorg 6.7.1 (built from ports) and
> Fvwm 2.4.19 built with imlib support from the ports.
> 
> I think that's all.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> TIA
> Lou
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