btnx: Send keyboard and mouse combination events with mouse buttons

[daou]

I got tired of having to look up all of the button configurations from btnx 0.2.x every time I had to start from scratch, so here they are in abbreviated form.

I hope this helps, and I suggest that daou should probably link this post in post #1 of this thread.

I will.

[daou]

It does seem that turning the mouse off results in all settings going back to some default. If the mouse is left on, however, its fine. Is this a known bug?

It's likely that btnx quits when your mouse disappears from the system. Maybe there is a problem with the hotplugging functionality if it doesn't start up again. You can check you System Monitor to see if btnx closes after turning off the mouse. Then check if it reappears when you turn it on.

[daou]

hi

this picture explains the bug I have when I click on the buttons shown it acts like a left click or a right click
Is there a fix for this? thanks
edit : it's not a "left click", it's a "middle click" (picture)

Have you tried editing your xorg.conf file like recommended in the manual?

[[S]Duke]

I did it through just installing btnx and btnx-config, what exactly should I look for?

(Yes, I configured the buttons, all work except the two side button ones)

[daou]

Okay... forgive me for not seeing this in here, but searching didn't find me very much. I'm looking to use btnx as part of my solution to get vent working for me. Admittedly I don't even have Ubuntu installed anymore, but I am looking(desperately) to change that. So here's what I'm wondering. Can btnx send these keystrokes directly to a program? IE: Bind my mouses 4th button to ] or something, and have that be echo'd straight to a non-focused window? If not I think I've got another solution using btnx, x2vnc, and ventriloctrl. But it would be nice if I could slim it down a bit.

btnx cannot send the events to specific windows only. If you know how to program, you could do it by including some X11 library functions to btnx.

[daou]

I did it through just installing btnx and btnx-config, what exactly should I look for?

(Yes, I configured the buttons, all work except the two side button ones)

I'm referring to the reference InputSection given in the troubleshooting section of the btnx manual. Look for section 9.2.1 here. Edit your xorg.conf file like described in that section, then restart your X session. It might help.

[[S]Duke]

I tried to match it as much as possible, and got it looking like this:

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

However, now none of the buttons on the "thumb" part of the mouse. Before, it was everything except the two thumb buttons, but now the wheel has gone down as well.

[daou]

I tried to match it as much as possible, and got it looking like this:

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

However, now none of the buttons on the "thumb" part of the mouse. Before, it was everything except the two thumb buttons, but now the wheel has gone down as well.

Try changing the Device to "/dev/psaux"

[[S]Duke]

That seems to make it work.

I have another question though, it seems commands are a little limited for me. For example, KEY_VOLUME(UP or DOWN) doesn't seem to work, no matter what key I put it on. Any idea what may be causing this?

[daou]

That seems to make it work.

I have another question though, it seems commands are a little limited for me. For example, KEY_VOLUME(UP or DOWN) doesn't seem to work, no matter what key I put it on. Any idea what may be causing this?

This is dependent on the window manager. It might not handle those keys correctly. But you can get around it. In GNOME (Ubuntu), for example, you can define a keyboard shortcut (System->Prefs->Kbd Shortcuts) for changing volume. Then make btnx send the same keyboard shortcut.