HOWTO: thumb buttons

[siroj]

After I followed the explanation in the first post in this thread, my Logitech MX500's forward/back-buttons didn't work... (don't know what went wrong)

Google found this page: http://www.kaltmacher.de/artikel35408-0-asc-0.html and after following the procedure laid out in that document, forward/back-buttons worked perfectly... don't know what's so different about the steps in both howtos...

Maybe it's of use to someone... It's in German though...

[sagara]

This may also interest some of you. I've got my Logitech MX900 (diNovo) thumb buttons working without using imwheel.

http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/...p?articleid=46

A few minor adjustments are needed to get it working,

My xorg.conf mouse section looks like

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"Protocol" "evdev"
	Option		"Dev Name" "Logitech USB Receiver" # cat /proc/bus/input/devices
	Option		"Dev Phys" "usb-0000:00:10.0-2.1/input1" # cat /proc/bus/input/devices	
	Option		"Device" "/dev/input/event4" # (/dev/input/mice also appears to work)
	Option		"Buttons" "10"
	Option		"ZAxisMapping" "9 10"
	Option		"Resolution" "800"
EndSection

My ~/.xinit file contains
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 4 5"

I hope this helps some people.

Did u install those patches from Gentoo in order to get this to work?
Step #1 on that site

[Datchew]

am about to try it.

however, last time i messed with this config file under the X11 dir, i screwed up my X irreparably.

Suggest everyone do this before you start:

"Fiddling with config files is great, but do this first:
cp configfile configfile.bak
that way once you screw everything up you can just do the reverse command and replace your screwedup file with the origonal one."

[Datchew]

well, i got done and rebooted.
absolutely nothing has changed.

i have a logitech M-bj58 regular usb optical mouse with 2 buttons and a scroll wheel.
scroll wheel already worked when i roll it, but i was hoping this would make it have the function where i click (push down) the scroll wheel and then can move the cursor around to make the screen scroll up/down without turning and turning and TURNING the mousewheel.

if you have any ideas, i'd love to hear them.

[Dihi Doctor]

I have an MX700 and the mouse section of my XF86Config-4 file looks like this (I followed a guide somewhere). The comments indicate the command you should type to get the "Dev Name" and "Dev Phys" values for your own system.

All the buttons (inc. wheel, cruise and thumb buttons) now work fine in firefox . I'm a very happy man, Thanks to whoever posted the link and I hope this helps some other MX700 owner

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Configured Mouse"
        Driver "mouse"
        Option "CorePointer"
        Option "Protocol" "evdev"
        Option "Dev Name" "Logitech USB Receiver" # cat /proc/bus/input/devices
        Option "Dev Phys" "usb-*/input0" # cat /proc/bus/input/devices
        Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" # (/dev/input/mice also appears to work)
        Option "Buttons" "10"
        Option "ZAxisMapping" "9 10"
        Option "Resolution" "800"
EndSection

[Datchew]

hmmm....
guess i'll do a backup of the config file and give that a try.

will post when i get done... probably this weekend.

[miatapaul]

I got this to work. I tried the method with the edev as the person in another post said we did not need to do the patches, no joy for me. I tried this and side buttons work but not the cruse or the other one on my MX700 do you think we could get this to work for those buttons by using 10 instead of 7? I figure I will have to add the buttons to the other fields as well. any ideas? i am done hosing my system this afternoon, perhaps tonight?

[JohnQ]

Just now got this to work WITHOUT imwheel. (Similar to the above) When I used imwheel, my top "fast scroll" button went back in history while everything else worked as it should. This problem has been resolved by not using imwheel.

In my /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file I have added:
/usr/bin/X11/xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"

And in my xorg.conf file (I'm running Hoary) I commented out the old pre-configured stuff and replaced it with:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
## Using a fix from http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...8&page=5&pp=10
Option "Protocol" "evdev"
Option "Dev Name" "Logitech USB Receiver" # cat /proc/bus/input/devices
Option "Dev Phys" "usb-0000:00:0d.0-3/input1" # cat /proc/bus/input/devices
Option "Device" "/dev/input/event4"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Note the different ZAxisMapping. Also, be sure to change the values of Dev Name, Dev Phys, and Device to the appropriate values of your system (`cat /proc/bus/input/devices`). Also, if this is your second pointer (like it is mine) be sure to add Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" in there.

Hope this helps someone else!

John

[jtopping]

anyone done the following on a Logitech "Click Plus" mouse(it comes with the LX700 desktop kit.

I can get the thumbs working good, but I have a left to right scroll wheel and an application switch button...any ideas on these?

[martijntje]

anyone done the following on a Logitech "Click Plus" mouse(it comes with the LX700 desktop kit.

I can get the thumbs working good, but I have a left to right scroll wheel and an application switch button...any ideas on these?

This worked great! Thanks alot.

Anyways, you have "apt get" instead of "apt-get", but that's the only thing i can find that's incorrect.