Hakachukai
March 9th, 2017, 04:27 AM
Problem: I'm trying to get my track ball to emulate a scroll wheel when I hold down both Left and Right Mouse buttons and use the track ball.
The 3 button emulation does work ( it emulates button 2 ).
The scroll wheel does not work :-( When I press both buttons it performs a paste action ( if anything has been copied ) instead of activating that scroll wheel
My distro is Ubuntu 16.04 64bit running Gnome classic session
This is my exact mouse and all of the detail of it:
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https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Logitech_Marblemouse_USB
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Contents of my X11 config dir. I have no xorg.conf
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user@machine~> ls /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/
total 44K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Mar 8 19:36 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Jul 19 2016 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92 Apr 8 2016 10-amdgpu.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2K Mar 8 19:24 10-evdev.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.4K May 17 2016 10-quirks.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 590 Mar 3 2016 11-evdev-quirks.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 364 Mar 3 2016 11-evdev-trackpoint.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K Mar 3 2016 50-synaptics.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 115 Mar 3 2016 50-vmmouse.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.4K Mar 3 2016 50-wacom.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 590 Mar 3 2016 51-synaptics-quirks.conf
user@machine~>
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So I edit the evdev conf, because if i can get it to work there I'll be one step closer to creating a proper xorg.conf file.
user@machine~> sudo vim /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf
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#
# Catch-all evdev loader for udev-based systems
# We don't simply match on any device since that also adds accelerometers
# and other devices that we don't really want to use. The list below
# matches everything but joysticks.
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev pointer catchall"
MatchIsPointer "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
#########################
# I added these 3 lines #
#########################
Option "EmulateWheel" "true"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev touchpad catchall"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev tablet catchall"
MatchIsTablet "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev touchscreen catchall"
MatchIsTouchscreen "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
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So then I start up a new X11 session on Virtual termial 2 ( I.E. CTRL+ALT+F2 ) and run xev to see if it worked
Output from xev
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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ I press the Left Button +
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
ButtonPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001,
root 0x98, subw 0x0, time 5139508, (122,112), root:(123,696),
state 0x0, button 1, same_screen YES
ButtonRelease event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001,
root 0x98, subw 0x0, time 5139586, (122,112), root:(123,696),
state 0x100, button 1, same_screen YES
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ I press the Right Button +
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
ButtonPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001,
root 0x98, subw 0x0, time 5140756, (122,112), root:(123,696),
state 0x0, button 3, same_screen YES
ButtonRelease event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001,
root 0x98, subw 0x0, time 5140778, (122,112), root:(123,696),
state 0x400, button 3, same_screen YES
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ I press the Both Buttons +
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
ButtonPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001,
root 0x98, subw 0x0, time 5141746, (122,112), root:(123,696),
state 0x0, button 2, same_screen YES
ButtonRelease event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001,
root 0x98, subw 0x0, time 5141978, (122,112), root:(123,696),
state 0x200, button 2, same_screen YES
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Then I run gnome-termial, type ls just to generate some text and try using the scroll wheel to scroll up.
It doesn't work. When I press both buttons it performs the paste action instead of scrolling.
3 button emulation works, but the scrollwheel emulation does not.
Why?!
The 3 button emulation does work ( it emulates button 2 ).
The scroll wheel does not work :-( When I press both buttons it performs a paste action ( if anything has been copied ) instead of activating that scroll wheel
My distro is Ubuntu 16.04 64bit running Gnome classic session
This is my exact mouse and all of the detail of it:
------------------------------------------------------------------
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Logitech_Marblemouse_USB
------------------------------------------------------------------
Contents of my X11 config dir. I have no xorg.conf
------------------------------------------------------------------
user@machine~> ls /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/
total 44K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Mar 8 19:36 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Jul 19 2016 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92 Apr 8 2016 10-amdgpu.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2K Mar 8 19:24 10-evdev.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.4K May 17 2016 10-quirks.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 590 Mar 3 2016 11-evdev-quirks.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 364 Mar 3 2016 11-evdev-trackpoint.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K Mar 3 2016 50-synaptics.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 115 Mar 3 2016 50-vmmouse.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.4K Mar 3 2016 50-wacom.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 590 Mar 3 2016 51-synaptics-quirks.conf
user@machine~>
------------------------------------------------------------------
So I edit the evdev conf, because if i can get it to work there I'll be one step closer to creating a proper xorg.conf file.
user@machine~> sudo vim /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf
------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Catch-all evdev loader for udev-based systems
# We don't simply match on any device since that also adds accelerometers
# and other devices that we don't really want to use. The list below
# matches everything but joysticks.
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev pointer catchall"
MatchIsPointer "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
#########################
# I added these 3 lines #
#########################
Option "EmulateWheel" "true"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev touchpad catchall"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev tablet catchall"
MatchIsTablet "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev touchscreen catchall"
MatchIsTouchscreen "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
-------------------------------------------------------------------
So then I start up a new X11 session on Virtual termial 2 ( I.E. CTRL+ALT+F2 ) and run xev to see if it worked
Output from xev
-------------------------------------------------------------------
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ I press the Left Button +
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
ButtonPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001,
root 0x98, subw 0x0, time 5139508, (122,112), root:(123,696),
state 0x0, button 1, same_screen YES
ButtonRelease event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001,
root 0x98, subw 0x0, time 5139586, (122,112), root:(123,696),
state 0x100, button 1, same_screen YES
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ I press the Right Button +
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
ButtonPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001,
root 0x98, subw 0x0, time 5140756, (122,112), root:(123,696),
state 0x0, button 3, same_screen YES
ButtonRelease event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001,
root 0x98, subw 0x0, time 5140778, (122,112), root:(123,696),
state 0x400, button 3, same_screen YES
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ I press the Both Buttons +
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
ButtonPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001,
root 0x98, subw 0x0, time 5141746, (122,112), root:(123,696),
state 0x0, button 2, same_screen YES
ButtonRelease event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001,
root 0x98, subw 0x0, time 5141978, (122,112), root:(123,696),
state 0x200, button 2, same_screen YES
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Then I run gnome-termial, type ls just to generate some text and try using the scroll wheel to scroll up.
It doesn't work. When I press both buttons it performs the paste action instead of scrolling.
3 button emulation works, but the scrollwheel emulation does not.
Why?!