btnx: Send keyboard and mouse combination events with mouse buttons

[tim71]

Now I found a bit more elegant way to do the same thing - just add the following line to /etc/default/lomoco

LOGITECH_MOUSE_DISABLE_CC=yes

and the rc.local entry is no longer needed

Damn- seems like I have to take this suggestion back...

[daou]

EDIT: Deleted. No longer necessary. Howto has changed to include btnx-config.

[silentstorm]

Works great for me!!

thx

[daou]

Thumb wheels:

Hi daou,

Having played around with the btnx and the MX revolution in the past few days on AMD64, I have found that everything works beautifully except the thumbwheels' behaviors.

I use xev and also do some debuggings under gdb and here are what I have found:

1) Clicking on the Thumb Wheel Forward produces button 9 and 3 event presses and releases. So it will genrate 2 separate actions based on 2 distinct button 9 and button 3 clicks
2) Click on the Thumb Wheel Backward generates button 8 and 2 event presses and releases. So it will genrate 2 separate actions based on 2 distinct button 8 and button 2 clicks.
4) Sometimes one click generates a spurious sequence of (1) or (2) mentioned above although btnx recognizes as one click
4) Btnx appears to do eveverything correctly but somehow the we still have the problem. I guess that this could be a mouse driver problem.

I.

You could try testing btnx 0.3 with btnx-config... and set the delay value accordingly. This will prevent btnx from sending that key event multiple times during the delay time.

[daou]

Damn- seems like I have to take this suggestion back...

Didn't work?

If you have time, you could make a quick list of steps to go through in order to get lomoco working with the mice that need it. I could then add it to the troubleshooting section.

[daou]

Works great for me!!

thx

No problem. Good to hear .

[daou]

To anyone that has tested btnx 0.3 with btnx-config:

tell me if it's working. If not, what is going wrong so I can fix what needs to be fixed. Once everything is working, I'll make a debian package and release it.

[daou]

I suggest people post their favorite keyboard combinations on this post. It might help other people to easily find the combos they need. In fact, I might learn something new myself .

[visik7]

I got btnx 0.3 an btnx-config works
but I've a problem my 5 extra buttons mapped by btnx are also mapped from the Xorg standard protocol (ImPS/2) I've tried to set it to auto like the thread say but nothing to do btnx generete events but also the Xorg driver generate events so it's all messed up how can I fix ?
I've also tried to set Option Buttons 5 into the Xorg input section but the problem persist.
HELP

[daou]

I got btnx 0.3 an btnx-config works
but I've a problem my 5 extra buttons mapped by btnx are also mapped from the Xorg standard protocol (ImPS/2) I've tried to set it to auto like the thread say but nothing to do btnx generete events but also the Xorg driver generate events so it's all messed up how can I fix ?
I've also tried to set Option Buttons 5 into the Xorg input section but the problem persist.
HELP

You could try using the most basic PS/2 protocols: "PS/2" or "GenericPS/2"
This will mean you lose functionality on even the scrollwheel.
But you can then use btnx to handle even the scrollwheels by binding the scrollwheel events to REL_WHEELFORWARD and REL_WHEELBACK keycodes.