HOWTO Configuring Logitech mice in Ubuntu 6.06 32 bit, based on endy's HOWTO

[fargoth]

ok.... i don't know if it's only my mx500... but using 1 3 2 in Xmodmap is wrong... 1 2 3 makes the buttons work fine.

[fargoth]

i tried adding

"/usr/bin/xvkbd -xsendevent -text "\[Alt_L]\[Tab]""
  m:0x0 + b:10

but that doesn't do what Alt+tab does.... how can i emulate Alt+tab with my mouse? (im using compiz...)

[detyabozhye]

i tried adding

"/usr/bin/xvkbd -xsendevent -text "\[Alt_L]\[Tab]""
  m:0x0 + b:10

but that doesn't do what Alt+tab does.... how can i emulate Alt+tab with my mouse? (im using compiz...)

Alt+Tab only works while it's being pressed, so you can't really make it di the Alt+Tab thing on Linux unless you build an application switcher app yourself. But since you're running compiz, you could map it to F12 (or if you changed it, the key for the Expose like feature) to activate the Expose like thing.

[jnev]

ok.... i don't know if it's only my mx500... but using 1 3 2 in Xmodmap is wrong... 1 2 3 makes the buttons work fine.

my mx510 works the same... when it was 1 3 2 the middle click was switched with the right click.

[detyabozhye]

my mx510 works the same... when it was 1 3 2 the middle click was switched with the right click.

It depends on your X server and driver I guess. For me, regular Xorg and 1 3 2 do it, with Xgl I have to change it to 1 2 3.

[fargoth]

Alt+Tab only works while it's being pressed, so you can't really make it di the Alt+Tab thing on Linux unless you build an application switcher app yourself. But since you're running compiz, you could map it to F12 (or if you changed it, the key for the Expose like feature) to activate the Expose like thing.

i change the line to:
"/usr/bin/xvkbd -xsendevent -text "\[F12]""
m:0x0 + b:10

but it still doesnt work...
xev gave me this:

KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic YES, window 0x3a00001,
    root 0x52, subw 0x0, time 0, (1,1), root:(1,1),
    state 0x0, keycode 96 (keysym 0xffc9, F12), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 31, synthetic YES, window 0x3a00001,
    root 0x52, subw 0x0, time 0, (1,1), root:(1,1),
    state 0x0, keycode 96 (keysym 0xffc9, F12), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:

EnterNotify event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x3a00001,
    root 0x52, subw 0x0, time 3733416567, (81,136), root:(95,207),
    mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor, same_screen YES,
    focus YES, state 16

KeymapNotify event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    keys:  82  0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
           0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0

it says i pressed F12 doesn't it?... wonder why compiz won't act like it does to normal F12 key-stroke...

any ideas?

[detyabozhye]

If you hit F12 on the keyboard, does it work?

[tellnes]

I edited this post, after seeing all i missed was a L and a R in the config..it works now..great howto!!

[firezip]

Can the author re look and re-edit this? The first time I did this my Ubuntu just locked up and I had to do a clean install. Thanks

[detyabozhye]

Can the author re look and re-edit this? The first time I did this my Ubuntu just locked up and I had to do a clean install. Thanks

Well, I would need to know exactly what happened to see why it locked up, I don't know what error messages you got or whatever, so I don't know what I could edit. BTW, always remember to make a backup of xorg.conf, so in case something goes wrong, you can revert back to the old settings.