HOWTO: Configuring Logitech mice in Ubuntu 6.06: New Guide

[detyabozhye]

To get Firefox to use the tilt wheel for horizontal scroll (the standard behavior for the tilt wheel) you need to set mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action to 0 in Firefox in about:config

To make the side button go back (standard behavior for side button) do:

sudo apt-get install xvkbd xbindkeys
gedit ~/.xbindkeysrc

In there paste:

"/usr/bin/xvkbd -xsendevent -text "\[Alt_L]\[Left]""
  m:0x0 + b:8

To have different behavior in different apps, you might have to use imwheel.

[pt123]

I have the Logitech MX 510 mouse on the PS/2 connector on my computer than using a USB connection would this guide still work for my setup?

[detyabozhye]

Evdev only works on USB.

[adam.tropics]

This is so weird, all was working, but i had an older version of evdev, so i upgraded, silly me! Still ok, except the left and right tilt have started to work back to front (right to left), and the button numbers, according to xev have changed. Added to that, changing the numbers in the xbindkeysrc has no effect at all! Any ideas?

[rlreich]

I setup everything they way it was written but when I rebooted I got a xserver fail. Now I can't get Ubu to start except in command line. Any idea what I did wrong or how to fix it?

[mdwuznik]

Do any of you know sth about the way the new hyped-up Revolution from Logitech would work under linux?

[jadugarr]

Thanks for the guide, worked great for my mx510. It let me finally lift the hold on upgrading the evdev package (previously downgraded to Breezy version). I think the whole reason the dapper version wasn't working for me was that I had my device named /dev/input/mx510 instead of event*.

[spookshow]

I setup everything they way it was written but when I rebooted I got a xserver fail. Now I can't get Ubu to start except in command line. Any idea what I did wrong or how to fix it?

you might have done what i did, and changed the identifier in the "InputDevice" section, and not changing it to the same name as the identifier in the "ServerLayout" section, silly me. i had x constantly not load for me until i figured that out this morning


questions about xbindkeys
i want my tilt left and tilt right to be page up and page down, as well as my back button to be, well, back.. what would i put in xbindkeysrc for that? (did some looking around, found a few things, but nothing seems to be working properly)
i have a logitech g7 mouse, and have use xev to find all the buttons (which, for some reason isn't actually showing my left and right tilt when i click em over.. any ideas?)

[detyabozhye]

This is so weird, all was working, but i had an older version of evdev, so i upgraded, silly me! Still ok, except the left and right tilt have started to work back to front (right to left), and the button numbers, according to xev have changed. Added to that, changing the numbers in the xbindkeysrc has no effect at all! Any ideas?

Do you have xmodmap set up (do you have a ~/.Xmodmap file)?
If you do, try without it. If you still have problems, post your xev output here without xmodmap.

[detyabozhye]

I setup everything they way it was written but when I rebooted I got a xserver fail. Now I can't get Ubu to start except in command line. Any idea what I did wrong or how to fix it?

Well, the description is pretty vague here, but the problem is most likely in either the udev rule or in the xorg.conf file.