Mouse buttons

[larryd782]

Hi I am new to Vector and like it very much. I can't get my forward and back buttons to work. In Mepis, I had to install ' imwheel' and change a few things in my xorg file and everything worked. I looked in the repos and could not find imwheel. Anybody have any ideas?  Thanks

[Triarius Fidelis]

Not sure about imwheel, but do you remember anything about adding ZAxisMapping "4 5" to your xorg.conf? VASM can do the same thing, BTW.

[larryd782]

Tried that, didn't help. anybody else have any ideas?

[bigpaws]

Name make and model are better than just guessing.

Did you edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf  and add this
in the mouse section?

Option ZAxisMapping "4 5"

Note: Spelling is important

after that restarting your X server. I have never had that fail on over
many different brands.

Bigpaws

[uelsk8s]

here is a imwheel package for slackware http://imwheel.sf.net/files/imwheel-1.0.0pre12-i486-1.tgz
download it and use installpkg to install it

HTH,
Uelsk8s

[boilertech]

I have an MS Intellimouse. When I run "xev" in terminal it shows my 2 side buttons as being 8 and 9. I believe they need to be 6 and 7 in order for them to work as back and forward in firefox. Is there any way of remapping them?

[lagagnon]

I think so. You need to edit, as root, the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf, this stanza:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Mouse0"
Driver      "mouse"
Option      "Protocol" "auto"
Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

and change the ZAxisMapping line to include buttons 6 and 7, then reboot X with Ctrl-Alt-BkSpace.

[boilertech]

Thanks for your reply.

I think so. You need to edit, as root, the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf, this stanza:

Hmmm. This is what my xorg.conf file looks like in Kubuntu

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Resolution" "100"
EndSection

  I wonder, and will probably try to set it the same as Kubuntu to see if that does anything.

[lagagnon]

Yes, why not, give it a try...

[boilertech]

Ok. I did it and it works now. here is what my xorg.conf looks like now.

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Mouse0"
Driver      "mouse"
Option       "Protocol" "auto"
Option       "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option      "Emulate3Buttons"   "false"
Option      "Buttons" "7"
Option      "ButtonMapping"      "1 2 3 6 7"
Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option      "Resolution" "100"
EndSection

Now "xev" shows the two side buttons as 6 and 7 so it works as backwards and forward in firefox. I did not install imwheel or anything else.

Darn that was almost too easy....... 

[admars]

Hi,
I'm new to Vector Linux (installed 5.9 RC3 Monday) so far so good,

added

Option      "Buttons" "7"
Option      "ButtonMapping"      "1 2 3 6 7"
Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

to my xorg.conf and that got my side buttons working perfectly on my MS Intellimouse (USB but using a PS/2 adapter)

Just wanted to say thank,

Cheers

Al