ButtonMapping for a 5-button mouse

[Matthias Hopf]

On May 10, 06 20:34:29 +0100, Phil Endecott wrote:
> No replies - so either I was asking in the wrong place, or this is 

No, just being busy.

> something no-one has encountered before.  I suspect that the 

That as well :)

> ButtonMapping code has some hard-coded limit on the number of buttons.

Yes, 30 buttons :-P

> This does basically what I want: the three main buttons are buttons 1, 2 
> and 3, and the scroll wheel works.  It seems that this method doesn't 
> allow you to have multiple physical buttons mapped to a single logical 
> button.  Depressing the scroll wheel does nothing useful, but by adding 
> this to xorg.conf:
> 
> Option EmulateWheel true
> Option EmulateWheelButton 9
> 
> dragging with the thumb button depressed also generates wheel events, 
> which is useful.

You could also use this for x-Axis wheel movement. Note that you have to
change the button to 8 with my ButtonMapping (which is applied first,
before EmulateWheel).

> Entries for 10, 11, 12 and 13 seem to be necessary, though I'm not sure 
> why.  Something thinks the mouse actually have 13 buttons.

A bug (I call it a bug, others might call it a feature) in xmodmap. Has
been fixed (changed) in the meantime.

Matthias

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