btnx: Send keyboard and mouse combination events with mouse buttons

[daou]

TERRIFIC PROGRAM!

thanks so much for taking the time with all of us, I appreciate it.

The only issue I havn't been able to work out from searching this thread over is what is the key to make MIDDLE CLICK activate the scrolling feature, as seen in windows. anybody know? i've tried several, none seem to work.

This is a Firefox specific feature. You can activate it in Edit->Preferences->Advanced->General->Use autoscrolling.

[daou]

I had this exact problem. It happens probably 1 out of 10 times I used the thumb buttons. While browsing in file manager or browser it'll make everything go nuts. So I tried uninstalling and reinstalling after seeing there was a new version on this howto. Now btnx-config doesn't detect my mouse at all (logitech mx510) during mouse detection. Suggestions?

Are you also running compiz? And did you try reinstalling the older version of btnx and btnx-config?

EDIT: perhaps a new field is required in btnx to help with this problem since so many people (including myself) have this problem. Something that forces btnx to send a key release signal immediately after pressing for any keys sent by a button that behaves like this. This means that the button will not be able to be held down even if the user wants to. However, most of the functionality doesn't require this anyway. I've seen nothing in the code that could be the source of this problem, so I can't think of any better solution.

[yesjoshyes]

This is a Firefox specific feature. You can activate it in Edit->Preferences->Advanced->General->Use autoscrolling.

thanks! that works!

[rand0m]

Are you also running compiz? And did you try reinstalling the older version of btnx and btnx-config?

EDIT: perhaps a new field is required in btnx to help with this problem since so many people (including myself) have this problem. Something that forces btnx to send a key release signal immediately after pressing for any keys sent by a button that behaves like this. This means that the button will not be able to be held down even if the user wants to. However, most of the functionality doesn't require this anyway. I've seen nothing in the code that could be the source of this problem, so I can't think of any better solution.

Yes, I am running compiz fusion. Tried installing the version I had before but I get the same problem.

As for the fix, that sounds like it would work. I can't think of a time where I'd need to hold down the thumb buttons anyway.

[metoor30]

I don't know if anyone else is having this problem, but I found a solution so I thought I would post it...

I have an MX Revolution mouse and am running Gutsy (Gnome). After configuring the MX Rev in btnx, it would bring up a search window when I would press the search button. This happened even if I would change it in btnx-config.

Solution:

Go to System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts, find the "Search" shortcut and disable it.

Also, make sure to press all the buttons when you detect the mouse. If you do not press the search button, it will not be detected when you detect buttons.

BTW, great program!!! It works better than the windows ap from Logitech.

Metoor30

[daffyd]

I've tried using btnx, and the installation and configuring has worked flawlessly. However, I cannot actually get it to do anything, and I'm running out of ideas here.

I'm running it on Kubuntu Gutsy with a Logitech G5 2007 ed. (which has one thumb button more than the older G5). The RCs are correct according to hexdump of the mouse, and my xorg.conf looks like this:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Configured Mouse"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "CorePointer"
#    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
EndSection

and here's a snippet from cat /proc/bus/input/devices:

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c705 Version=0110
N: Name="Logitech USB Receiver"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:0b.1-3.1.2.1/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input70
U: Uniq=09361E
H: Handlers=mouse1 event2
B: EV=7
B: KEY=ff0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=103

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c049 Version=0111
N: Name="Logitech USB Gaming Mouse"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:0b.1-3.1.3/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input71
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse2 event3
B: EV=7
B: KEY=ffff0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=143

I've not been messing around with xmodmap (so far), and never tried btnx before, so there's no leftovers from old config files or anything like that that causes the problem. I've also made sure that the buttons which I want fire an event on have the "Enabled" box checked, and been looking for keysym values with xev (which are sadly lacking).

btnx reports of no problems when started directly (ie. not through /etc/init.d), so everything seems to be hunkydory. Well, except from the fact that it doesn't work, which some may regard as slightly discouraging when it comes to using it.

So, anyone have an idea?

Any help is appreciated, and thanks in advance

[Curlydave]

Does anyone have an alternate working xorg config for Revolution users?

I used the old version of BTNX, the one without the UI for a while and it worked, minus dynamic wheel mode support. The new version is very broken for me, and I can't configure the buttons. Mouse 1 and 2 work, and mouse4 does what mouse3 should. The old version actually had all the buttons working automatically. The config in the troubleshooting section of the manual breaks my X. Any ideas?

[heatpumpcontrol]

Ok I tried to find something but all I have is this:

grep: /etc/cups/classes.conf: Permission denied
grep: /etc/cups/printers.conf: Permission denied
grep: /etc/cups/ssl: Permission denied
grep: /etc/cups/ssl/server.crt: Permission denied
grep: /etc/cups/ssl/server.key: Permission denied
grep: /etc/cups/printers.conf.O: Permission denied
grep: /etc/cups/classes.conf.O: Permission denied
grep: /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config: Permission denied
grep: /etc/at.deny: Permission denied
grep: /etc/apt/secring.gpg: Permission denied
grep: /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg: Permission denied
grep: /etc/group-: Permission denied
grep: /etc/sudoers: Permission denied
grep: /etc/shadow: Permission denied
grep: /etc/gshadow: Permission denied
grep: /etc/ssl/private: Permission denied
grep: /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key: Permission denied
/etc/btnx/btnx_config:# This is a btnx configuration file generated by btnx-config
grep: /etc/passwd-: Permission denied
grep: /etc/fuse.conf: Permission denied
grep: /etc/shadow-: Permission denied
grep: /etc/security/opasswd: Permission denied
grep: /etc/.pwd.lock: Permission denied
grep: /etc/ppp/pap-secrets: Permission denied
grep: /etc/ppp/chap-secrets: Permission denied
grep: /etc/gshadow-: Permission denied

None have btnx so I'm stuck. I don't see anything I can comment out.

hmm.

[olmari]

Did you try "sudo grep ...."?

[coredix]

hi,
sorry if this seems to be a little off-topic" but this thread is closed.

there was a tip for horizontal scrolling in firefox:

Mouse wheel tilt for horizontal scrolling
This tip is used to switch the mouse wheel tilt function to horizontal scroll in Firefox. Thanks to knn for suggesting this tip.

1. Go to about:config by typing "about:config" in the URL field of Firefox.

2. Set mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action "Value" field to 0. NOTE: If you've swapped the wheel tilt buttons as described in the "Switch mouse wheel tilt functions" tip above, the direction will be reversed. In this case, change mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.numlines "Value" to 1.

after an upgrade from feisty to gutsy, this does´nt work anymore

any hints?

cheers coredix

ps: i´m still using the "old" method described in the above mentioned thread to configure the mouse buttons of my MX revolution