Mouse button 4 does scroll up, how to disable?

[Chris G]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 01:25:54PM +0300, Shahar Dag wrote:
>    Hello
>     
>    I am not sure that I have the solution for you, but it may give you some
>    hints
>     
>    first, find the device name of mouse. use
>    $ xinput list | grep 'id='
>     
>    The result will be something like :
> 
>    "Virtual core pointer" id=0 [XPointer]
>    "Virtual core keyboard" id=1 [XKeyboard]
>    "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard" id=2 [XExtensionKeyboard]
>    "Macintosh mouse button emulation" id=3 [XExtensionPointer]
>    "Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse" id=4 [XExtensionPointer]
>    then, remap the buttons. for example
>     
Remapping the buttons won't help I don't think, it's not that I have
the wrong buttons doing things, I have a button doing something I
don't want it to do.

>    $ xinput set-button-map "Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse" 1 1 3
> 
>    Will turns the middle mouse click into a left mouse click.
> 
>    For much more on input device configuration please see: 
>    [1]https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input
>     
However this link is useful and I'm following up on some of the places
it takes me to.  I *suspect* that HAL may well have hijacked my button
4 before I've got to it.  Thanks for the link.

>    Have fun
>    Shahar
> 
>      ----- Original Message -----
>      From: [2]Chris G
>      To: [3]ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>      Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 12:51 AM
>      Subject: Mouse button 4 does scroll up, how to disable?
>      Having upgraded from xubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 my Logitech mouse button 4
>      now does scroll back.  Since I'd spent a lot of effort getting mouse
>      button 4 to do a "double click button 1" I'm a bit annoyed at this.
> 
>      Can anyone tell me where this button scoll action is being configured
>      so I can un-configure it and get my double click back?
> 
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> Links:
> 1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input
> 2. mailto:cl at isbd.net/
> 3. mailto:ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com/
> 4. mailto:ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com/
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