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!
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Chris Green
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