btnx: Send keyboard and mouse combination events with mouse buttons

[daou]

EDIT: doesn't work

To anyone having problems with extra buttons events (especially with the MX Revo, for example a right, middle, or left mouse button event when using the thumb buttons):

This might be a fix. I can't confirm it because I don't have the problem myself and can't replicate it (despite trying very hard to abuse btnx ).

Try changing the mappings of the buttons with xmodmap

For example run something like this:

$ xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6"

This should switch any buttons, like thumb buttons (8 and 9) on the MX Revo to higher values which are not handled.

If that works, add the line, or whatever line worked for you, into your .Xmodmap file:

$ echo "pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6" > ~/.Xmodmap

If this turns out to fix the problem, then perhaps it should be included as a command in the install script.

[Akegata]

To anyone having problems with extra buttons events (especially with the MX Revo, for example a right, middle, or left mouse button event when using the thumb buttons):

This might be a fix. I can't confirm it because I don't have the problem myself and can't replicate it (despite trying very hard to abuse btnx ).

Try changing the mappings of the buttons with xmodmap

For example run something like this:

$ xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6"

This should switch any buttons, like thumb buttons (8 and 9) on the MX Revo to higher values which are not handled.

If that works, add the line, or whatever line worked for you, into your .Xmodmap file:

$ echo "pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6" > ~/.Xmodmap

If this turns out to fix the problem, then perhaps it should be included as a command in the install script.

That doesn't really seem to do anything.
I get the warning message "Warning: Only changing the first 20 of 9 buttons." when I run it, and nothing changes. :/

[Xenner]

did not work for me either

[daou]

That doesn't really seem to do anything.

Ok, I can only think of one more thing. What does your xorg.conf InputSection look like?

$ sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

This is what mine looks like:

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option              "Buttons"       "3"
EndSection

EDIT: "Protocol" "auto" and Driver "mouse" are important.

[Akegata]

This is what my InputDevice-section looks like:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Configured Mouse"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "CorePointer"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

I tried adding the buttons 3 line, but that didn't hchange anything.

[daou]

I tried adding the buttons 3 line, but that didn't hchange anything.

You restarted X, right (Ctrl+Alt+Backspace)?

Try making the InputSection more like mine. Make a backup first. If you don't know what to do if X fails, ask me first before making changes. Change the following parts:

• Protocol
• Device
• Emulate3Buttons
• Device (maybe try this after trying everything else)
• Take out CorePointer

[Xenner]

You restarted X, right (Ctrl+Alt+Backspace)?

Try making the InputSection more like mine. Make a backup first. If you don't know what to do if X fails, ask me first before making changes. Change the following parts:

• Protocol
• Device
• Emulate3Buttons
• Device (maybe try this after trying everything else)
• Take out CorePointer

I change my xorg as you stated and it works great for me now
I have also setup revoco for the mx revolution and my middle mouse wheel works perfectly

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"        "/dev/input/mice"
        Option          "Protocol"      "auto"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "no"
        Option          "Buttons"       "3"
EndSection

[daou]

I change my xorg as you stated and it works great for me now
I have also setup revoco for the mx revolution and my middle mouse wheel works perfectly

Great! Only problem is, that it looks like MX users have to edit their xorg.conf after all... I wanted to avoid this as much as possible. Perhaps I could try to include some sort of functionality in the install scripts to detect an MX Revo and modify the xorg.conf file accordingly... this wouldn't be easy and I don't really like messing around with other peoples' xorg.conf files.

One more thing. I would be really grateful if some MX Revo user has the time to isolate the xorg.conf option that is the culprit here.

EDIT: is it the "Protocol" "auto" option?

[Akegata]

EDIT: is it the "Protocol" "auto" option?

Yeah, you nailed it. I only changed the Protocol to "auto", now it works like it should.
Thank you!

[Xenner]

even though changing it to auto is still messing with an xorg config, i think that would still fly for the mx revo users, i would just post a warning.