[sclug] Mice of many buttons

[Smiles, Mark Mark]

Will,
Try running out the output of xmodmap and examining the buttons.
e.g.
	xmodmap -pke >/tmp/xmodmap.out

If you play around with the xmodmap settings and invoke these from an
appropriate file name scheme for what you currently have to what you
want, this should work. I recently had to solve a uk and us keyboard
mapping problem in cygwin and used the same solution.


Mark Smiles



-----Original Message-----
From: sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk [mailto:sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk] On
Behalf Of Will Dickson
Sent: 29 February 2004 11:48
To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
Subject: [sclug] Mice of many buttons

I have a mouse which, including the scrollwheel, has 10 
buttons, and in Windows I actually use most of them! I'm 
hoping to replicate my current (Windows) settings in Linux, 
so here goes:

- Two of the extra buttons duplicate the scrollwheel effect: 
this may seem redundant but it's ergonomically helpful. 
(Different set of muscle movements, reduced RSI risk, given 
that I spend much of my working day scrolling round various 
files.) Given that I can find out which buttons are which 
(hello, xev) I'm wondering how I might be able to set this 
up - say, either two ZAxisMapping statements in XF86Config, 
or one statment with all 4 buttons in. Anyone tried this?

- Two more buttons are programmed as ^X and ^V respectively 
(Cut, Paste). This may seem trivial but I do an awful lot of 
it, so it's important to me - in fact, it's close to being a 
deal breaker. I suspect xmodmap is what I'm after here, but 
after RTFM I'm not much further forward. Anyone got any 
suggestions?

- Finally, my middle button is programmed as double-click. 
It would be helpful to replicate this as well - I don't 
expect to use the X-style highlight-and-paste very much - 
but I've no idea how. Again, any ideas?

TIA

Will.

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