{"id":96,"date":"2006-08-05T20:39:01","date_gmt":"2006-08-05T19:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/?p=96"},"modified":"2006-08-05T20:39:01","modified_gmt":"2006-08-05T19:39:01","slug":"new-mouse-in-xorg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"New Mouse in Xorg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Week I updated my Gentoo box from Xorg 6.x to Modular Xorg 7.0<\/a>, which is radically different: Xorg now consists of a bunch of small modules instead of a big package.<\/p>\n

I didn’t encounter many problems during this upgrade, and you shouldn’t as long as you follow the gentoo migration guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This week, I bought a new “gamer” mouse: the Trust “Predator” GM-4200<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of course, I wanted all buttons to be active and usable in X. So here’s the way I’ve followed to make it working:<\/p>\n

First I had to re-emerge Xorg, but with the evdev module integrated. So I added “evdev” into the “INPUT_DEVICES” section of \/etc\/make.conf<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

INPUT_DEVICES=”keyboard evdev mouse wacom”<\/div>\n

Then I modified the xorg.conf<\/strong> file:<\/p>\n

Section “InputDevice”
\nIdentifier “Mouse1”
\nDriver “evdev”
\nOption “Device” “\/dev\/input\/event1”
\nOption “Buttons” “10”
\nOption “ZAxisMapping” “4 5”
\nOption “AlwaysCore” “on”
\nEndSection<\/div>\n

You can see that I defined this mouse with 10 buttons, altough it physically has only 8. In fact, buttons 6 and 7 are automatically assumed as being the left and right wheel tilt (option I don’t have on my mouse). At that point, all my buttons are recognized, but still not usable.<\/p>\n

So, finally, I installed xvkbd<\/strong> and xbindkeys<\/strong>, and added the following into my ~\/.xbindkeysrc<\/strong> file:<\/p>\n

# Back using button 8
\n“xvkbd -xsendevent -text “\\[Alt_L]\\[Left]””
\nb:8
\n# Forward using button 9
\n“xvkbd -xsendevent -text “\\[Alt_L]\\[Right]””
\nb:9
\n# Close TAB using button 10
\n“xvkbd -xsendevent -text “\\[Control_L]\\[w]””
\nb:10<\/div>\n

After launching xbindkeys<\/strong> (you may want to add it in the automatically started applications), the defined action will be performed after pressing the correspondant mouse button: buttons 8 and 9 navigate backward and forward in Firefox, and button 10 closes active Tab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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