btnx: Send keyboard and mouse combination events with mouse buttons

[daou]

yay new version works great!

but any suggestion what to use the thumbpress for on the mx revo? i cant think of anything useful to assign

If you are talking about the thumb wheel press, I use it for Alt+Left mouse button. This allows you to drag windows. Another useful one is Alt+Middle mouse button which can be used for resizing windows.
The thumb buttons I usually use as Ctrl+Page up or Ctrl+Page down for moving through tabs (not just Firefox), or volume control, or anything that can be adjusted in two directions.

[jamesford]

those are good suggestions!
ive been assigning KEY_RIGHT(or KEY_LEFT)+KEY_LEFTCTRL+KEYLEFTALT to the thumb back/forward buttons for rotating the compiz-fusion cube

i just noticed a little bug in the btnx-config, if u accidently type a keycode that doesent exist into the keycode field an error popup is displayed thart keeps respawning itself forever and is impossible to get rid of without killal btnx-config

[kdkirsch]

Greetings. I have two problems relating to my mouse. First, btnx will not detect my Logitech MX Revolution. Second, I am experiencing input lag. Both of these problems arose immediately after upgrading to gutsy at release time.

1) btnx: My MX revolution worked perfectly under feisty. Since upgrading to gutsy it doesn't. When I try to detect my mouse the following is detected: Vendor ID: 0x001f, Product ID: 0x001e.

$ cat /proc/bus/input/devices

I: Bus=0017 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="Macintosh mouse button emulation"
P: Phys=
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input0
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event0 
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 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=/class/input/input1
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event1 
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=402000000 3802078f840d001 feffffdfffefffff fffffffffffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=7

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0002 Version=0000
N: Name="Power Button (FF)"
P: Phys=button_power/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input3
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event3 
B: EV=3
B: KEY=10000000000000 0

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0001 Version=0000
N: Name="Power Button (CM)"
P: Phys=PNP0C0C/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input4
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event4 
B: EV=3
B: KEY=10000000000000 0

I: Bus=0006 Vendor=001f Product=001f Version=0000
N: Name="Mouseemu virtual keyboard"
P: Phys=
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input5
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event5 
B: EV=100003
B: KEY=1ffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff

I: Bus=0006 Vendor=001f Product=001e Version=0000
N: Name="Mouseemu virtual mouse"
P: Phys=
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input6
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse2 event6 
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0
B: REL=103

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c51a Version=0111
N: Name="Logitech USB Receiver"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:02.0-8/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input7
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse3 event7 
B: EV=7
B: KEY=ffff0000 0 0 0 0
B: REL=143

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c51a Version=0111
N: Name="Logitech USB Receiver"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:02.0-8/input1
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input8
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event8 
B: EV=f
B: KEY=7fff002c3027 bf00444000000000 1 f808837c000 667bfad9415fed 8e000000000000 0
B: REL=40
B: ABS=100000000

After hours of looking I still don't know what "Mouseemu virtual mouse" is. Since this is the device being detected by btnx and because it did not exist on my feisty system this must be the cause of my problem. I would greatly appreciate anyone's help with this.

2) Input lag: If I type something (any characters, it doesn't matter), there is a delay before the mouse will respond. It can best be described as "lag" because the cursor moves where you move it after a 0.5 second delay. I hope that this will be resolved with #1 but if it in fact unrelated I would of course appreciate anyone's help resolving this problem.

Thanks in advance. Cheers!

-kdkirsch

[rand0m]

Hi, I liked to thank you for implementing the "Force immediate button release" option. Works great and now I can finally use my thumb buttons in dolphin

[daou]

Greetings. I have two problems relating to my mouse. First, btnx will not detect my Logitech MX Revolution. Second, I am experiencing input lag. Both of these problems arose immediately after upgrading to gutsy at release time.

1) btnx: My MX revolution worked perfectly under feisty. Since upgrading to gutsy it doesn't. When I try to detect my mouse the following is detected: Vendor ID: 0x001f, Product ID: 0x001e.

2) Input lag: If I type something (any characters, it doesn't matter), there is a delay before the mouse will respond. It can best be described as "lag" because the cursor moves where you move it after a 0.5 second delay. I hope that this will be resolved with #1 but if it in fact unrelated I would of course appreciate anyone's help resolving this problem.

Thanks in advance. Cheers!

-kdkirsch

Make sure your xorg.conf InputSection looks like the recommended one as described in the btnx manual's troubleshooting section 11.2.1 (links at first post). If that doesn't help, make sure mouseemu is not installed. Remove it if necessary.

[daou]

those are good suggestions!
ive been assigning KEY_RIGHT(or KEY_LEFT)+KEY_LEFTCTRL+KEYLEFTALT to the thumb back/forward buttons for rotating the compiz-fusion cube

i just noticed a little bug in the btnx-config, if u accidently type a keycode that doesent exist into the keycode field an error popup is displayed thart keeps respawning itself forever and is impossible to get rid of without killal btnx-config

This bug has been in the program for a while. Thanks for reminding me about it. I'll try to get it fixed for 0.4.1.

[daou]

Hi, I liked to thank you for implementing the "Force immediate button release" option. Works great and now I can finally use my thumb buttons in dolphin

No problem, I'm glad it fixed the problem. Although, I suspect the heart of the problem lies elsewhere. I noticed that it usually happened when the system had a high load. Perhaps some input events were lost somewhere, or it's a buffering issue.

[rand0m]

For me it was pretty consistent. The buttons would get stuck probably 30-40% of the time. Sometimes I would only be browsing files, barely any load on the system at all.

[kdkirsch]

Make sure your xorg.conf InputSection looks like the recommended one as described in the btnx manual's troubleshooting section 11.2.1 (links at first post). If that doesn't help, make sure mouseemu is not installed. Remove it if necessary.

Removing mouseemu solved both of my problems.

To remove mouseemu:

$ sudo apt-get remove mouseemu

btnx will then detect your MX revolution correctly.

[daou]

btnx 0.4.1 released

• Minor init script fixes. Upgrade if you are experiencing delays during boot after installing btnx.

btnx-config 0.4.1 released

• New advanced options to enable/disable btnx hot-plugging and to control the WAIT_FOR_SYSFS option.
• Some new stuff for maintainers.

You can now also help translate btnx-config to your language(s): btnx-config @ Launchpad.