Re: Configuring extra buttons on MS Trackball Explorer
Aaron WIlcox <[email protected]>
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Brad Barnett wrote: > This depends upon your window manager. > > I haven't looked into Gnome for a while, and if they're using Metacity, I > don't believe they support more than 5 buttons native. > > (scroll up + down are button 4 + 5) > > Nor does KDE/kwin. > > Anyhow, unless you want to use a cool WM like Sawfish, then you'll need > to use something like imwheel to map the mouse buttons to keyboard > actions. That is, if you want those mouse buttons to do something more > specific than just doubling for what other mouse buttons already do. > > You don't just want those buttons to dupe for others, do you? > > On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:26:56 -0500 > Aaron WIlcox <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually, that's exactly what I want to do. On the Trackball Explorer the traditional "mouse button" fingers are used to move the trackball, and the thumb is left to handle all the tradition mouse buttons (left, right, scroll/middle). What I've always done in the past is map the extra two buttons (Button 8 & 9 according to xev) to buttons 2 & 3 (middle & right click), so I can use my ring finger & pinkie to handle middle & right clicking. -- Aaron Wilcox GMail <mailto:[email protected]> Sympatico <mailto:[email protected]> -- OCLUG general discussion list [email protected] http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/oclug