Mouse button 4 does scroll up, how to disable?

Chris G cl at isbd.net
Thu Jul 9 11:12:45 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 11:40:17AM +0100, Chris G wrote:
> 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.
> 
Yes, that information helped me sort it out, thanks again!

-- 
Chris Green





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