btnx: Send keyboard and mouse combination events with mouse buttons

[daou]

The installation didn't work for me. First it didn't put a btnx-config entry into the System Tools (so I don't know what command it needs) and then when I started btnx-config under sudo (because it wouldn't work correctly otherwise) it gave me all sorts of errors about btnx not running. Then I remembered I deleted the hand-typed startup program entry in the Sessions CP and I deleted the old menu entry in the System Tools menu (both from a previous install). I'm guessing I should have kept both entries, but shouldn't new subsequent installs re-enter the menu item (not the startup program item, that was my doing to get btnx to start at login)?

I think this is waaaaaaaayyyy too much trouble just to get my MX Revolution to work correctly. I think I'll wait until Logitech gets off their hands and release a utility for their Linux customers.

Please don't tell me I have to reinstall Ubuntu just to get this install to work correctly. If I have to I might as well get rid of Ubuntu altogether because I really don't want to reinstall. It's too inconvenient and I have things the way I want them and I really don't want to try to get back to everything from memory.

btnx should start by its own after installing. You don't need to add an entry to the Sessions CP... besides, it wouldn't work because btnx requires root privileges to run.

If you deleted the entry in the System tools menu, it might not show up again. I remember at least KDE has preferences which remembers what menu entries you delete, and hides them from you even if you reinstall the package. Try looking for how to undo this. I'll try looking as well later and reply if I find a solution.

But you don't necessarily need the menu entry for btnx-config. You can always start it from command line with sudo. The menu entry is not a critical part of the package, just a convinience.

And yes, it would be nice for Logitech to make tools for Linux. But looking at their Windows software, I'm not sure if they would be able to make anything other than a bloated program providing minimal functionality. They have never shown any interest in Linux compatibility.

Could you post the errors you are getting when running btnx-config?

[YoDaddeh]

Try commenting out the cdrom from /etc/apt/sources.list
If you don't know how, you can find instructions on how to do so on these forums.

Okay, I'll try removing it out of the sources list and see what happens.

[daou]

Seems like it's working fine - even made debs and installed these (btw dpkg-buildpackage failed with fakeroot).

P.S. By the way this force release property might help with wheel tilt (configured as Alt+Left/Alt+Right) kinda'... "sticking" - wheel is released, but sometimes rarely command is repeating itself and with a web browser 'Back' command it might mess things up a little (with "old btnx").

I used checkinstall the make the 0.4.4 debs available on my server. It worked without problems.

And yes, the force release was implemented to fix that problem. I've no longer had any problems with stuck buttons that use the force release property.

[[S]Duke]

Post the output of 'cat /proc/bus/input/devices'

Sorry for the late reply. The problems have gotten worse, now btnx only recognizes the left and right tilts of the index wheel, while ignoring all the other buttons.

Here's the output:

I: Bus=0017 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="Macintosh mouse button emulation"
P: Phys=
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input0
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event0
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input1
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event1
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=4 2000000 3803078 f800d001 feffffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=7

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c517 Version=0110
N: Name="Logitech USB Receiver"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:0b.0-1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/input/input2
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event2
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=10000 7 ff800000 7ff febeffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=1f

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c517 Version=0110
N: Name="Logitech USB Receiver"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:0b.0-1/input1
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.1/input/input3
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd mouse1 event3
B: EV=1f
B: KEY=37fff 4ac332f bf084444 0 0 ff0001 1f84 8a37cc00 667bfa dd71dfed 9e0000 0 0 0
B: REL=1c3
B: ABS=1 0
B: MSC=10

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c51a Version=0111
N: Name="Logitech USB Receiver"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:0b.0-4/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/input/input4
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse2 event4
B: EV=17
B: KEY=ffff0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=143
B: MSC=10

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c51a Version=0111
N: Name="Logitech USB Receiver"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:0b.0-4/input1
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.1/input/input5
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event5
B: EV=1f
B: KEY=37fff ac3027 bf004444 0 0 1 f84 8a37c000 667bfa d9415fed 8e0000 0 0 0
B: REL=40
B: ABS=1 0
B: MSC=10

I: Bus=0010 Vendor=001f Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="PC Speaker"
P: Phys=isa0061/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input6
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event6
B: EV=40001
B: SND=6

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0002 Version=0000
N: Name="Power Button (FF)"
P: Phys=LNXPWRBN/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input7
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event7
B: EV=3
B: KEY=100000 0 0 0

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0001 Version=0000
N: Name="Power Button (CM)"
P: Phys=PNP0C0C/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input8
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event8
B: EV=3
B: KEY=100000 0 0 0

[lledurt]

Thanks for this thread. This may be what I am looking for.

I am trying to use my thumb buttons to cut (button 8) and then paste (button 9) into a folder in nautilus file browser. I would like to be able to do each action with one button click. For example instead of selecting the file and then selecting cut(or cont x) I want to just hit button 8, and instead of selecting a folder and then right clicking and selecting paste in folder, I would like to hit button 9. It would also be great to be able to just select and paste if the mouse is not over a folder.

I have tried xbindkeys working but it still requires sever clicks or kestrokes to do exactly what I need.

This may be too much to ask but if anyone has done anything similar, let me know.

Thanks P.J.

[holotone]

Thank you for this excellent tutorial for this great software - Everything worked swimmingly on my main Ubuntu box, but when I try to install the dependencies on my Asus Eee running Xubuntu, I get:

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  libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libice-dev libpango1.0-dev libpng12-dev
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Clearly this is a problem for me as I do not even have a CD-Rom on this lil' guy.

Any suggestions?

[olmari]

You could delete CD-ROM from Synaptics, so it wouldn't try to use CD-ROM anymore as repository holder.

[holotone]

You could delete CD-ROM from Synaptics, so it wouldn't try to use CD-ROM anymore as repository holder.

Aha! Fixed that right up - Does Xubuntu always require the CD-ROM to be available by default, or is this something specific to eeeXubuntu?

Thanks!

[dlpfmVfH]

Dear Daou,

I'm trying to use btnx with a Logitech G9 Laser Mouse,
I got al buttons working in X. (see this how to I made:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=652092)

But btnx doesn't recognize the mouse.
So I can't reconfigure the buttons.

Is there a way to get the G9 Laser mouse and btnx working together? And what kind of information do you need to get it working?

[daou]

Dear Daou,

I'm trying to use btnx with a Logitech G9 Laser Mouse,
I got al buttons working in X. (see this how to I made:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=652092)

But btnx doesn't recognize the mouse.
So I can't reconfigure the buttons.

Is there a way to get the G9 Laser mouse and btnx working together? And what kind of information do you need to get it working?

Do you still have your settings from that howto? You need to remove the udev rule and reconfigure the xorg.conf InputDevice section according to the btnx manual's troubleshooting section 12.2.1.

so change it to:

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

First make sure to restart udev and X (or reboot to be safe).
Also try setting Option "Device" to "/dev/psaux" if it doesn't work. Tell me what happens.