[gentoo-user] Logitech MX620 mouse

[gentoo-user] Logitech MX620 mouse

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Has anyone of you managed to map the "Search" button of the Logitech
MX620 to another function?

A client wants to use that button for panning drawings ... we fiddled
with xmodmap etc but with no success so far.

That button gives not "button press" event ... so it's kind of strange.

Maybe I have to add some xorg-config section?

EmulateWheelButton sounds interesting because panning with pressing the
wheel works, but is inaccurate (you often move the wheel as well ...).

thanks, Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech MX620 mouse

[John Campbell]

On 05/16/2013 09:06 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>
> Has anyone of you managed to map the "Search" button of the Logitech
> MX620 to another function?
>
> A client wants to use that button for panning drawings ... we fiddled
> with xmodmap etc but with no success so far.
>
> That button gives not "button press" event ... so it's kind of strange.
>
> Maybe I have to add some xorg-config section?
>
> EmulateWheelButton sounds interesting because panning with pressing the
> wheel works, but is inaccurate (you often move the wheel as well ...).

Take a look at imwheel.  It's a little unmaintained but it still works. 
  I've used it on an old MX1000 and my current PreformanceMX.

You can set mouse buttons on a per window/program basis to have 
different effects for whichever window has focus.  Thus "search" for 
Firefox and "paste" for Thunderbird.

You also might need lomoco to turn on the button.  I remember with my 
MX1000, I had to enable the two scroll wheels as buttons.  Otherwise 
they were used by the mouse to "scroll fast" which I found pretty useless.

Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech MX620 mouse

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 18.05.2013 00:57, schrieb John Campbell:

> Take a look at imwheel.  It's a little unmaintained but it still works.
>  I've used it on an old MX1000 and my current PreformanceMX.
> 
> You can set mouse buttons on a per window/program basis to have
> different effects for whichever window has focus.  Thus "search" for
> Firefox and "paste" for Thunderbird.
> 
> You also might need lomoco to turn on the button.  I remember with my
> MX1000, I had to enable the two scroll wheels as buttons.  Otherwise
> they were used by the mouse to "scroll fast" which I found pretty useless.

thanks for the suggestions!

We were successful with btnx yesterday ... and now we don't touch it
anymore (as long as it still works).

Stefan

[gentoo-user] Re: Logitech MX620 mouse

[Steven J. Long]

On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 10:57:40AM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Am 18.05.2013 00:57, schrieb John Campbell:
> 
> > Take a look at imwheel.  It's a little unmaintained but it still works.
> >  I've used it on an old MX1000 and my current PreformanceMX.
> > 
> > You can set mouse buttons on a per window/program basis to have
> > different effects for whichever window has focus.  Thus "search" for
> > Firefox and "paste" for Thunderbird.
> > 
> > You also might need lomoco to turn on the button.  I remember with my
> > MX1000, I had to enable the two scroll wheels as buttons.  Otherwise
> > they were used by the mouse to "scroll fast" which I found pretty useless.
> 
> thanks for the suggestions!
> 
> We were successful with btnx yesterday ... and now we don't touch it
> anymore (as long as it still works).

Just for posterity's sake, would you mind posting how you configured it, for
anyone searching for help on the same thing?

I don't have an MX620, but I do love Logitech trackballs, and am interested in
configuration settings for this stuff. I was looking at the Kensington one
with a turn-wheel, but settled on my old faithful Trackman Marble for recent
replacement. I really just want something like that with a wheel, but the
ones I saw didn't do it for me. In any case, at some point i'm going to have
to deal with a more complex device, so I'd like to see what kind of thing
you needed to configure (never heard of btnx.)

Thanks,
steveL
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Logitech MX620 mouse

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 19.05.2013 03:39, schrieb Steven J. Long:

> Just for posterity's sake, would you mind posting how you configured it, for
> anyone searching for help on the same thing?
> 
> I don't have an MX620, but I do love Logitech trackballs, and am interested in
> configuration settings for this stuff. I was looking at the Kensington one
> with a turn-wheel, but settled on my old faithful Trackman Marble for recent
> replacement. I really just want something like that with a wheel, but the
> ones I saw didn't do it for me. In any case, at some point i'm going to have
> to deal with a more complex device, so I'd like to see what kind of thing
> you needed to configure (never heard of btnx.)

btnx is outdated already ... it isn't developed anymore by its original
author and stuff like easystroke etc are recommended by other users.
btnx doesn't interact correctly with recent kernels etc.

My client had used btnx successfully before and after we had no success
with xmodmap, xbindkeys (we didnt know easystroke then) we went back to
getting btnx to work.

There isn't much to say ... the system of my client runs Ubuntu 12.10
... and btnx is only part of the distribution up to 12.04 ...
fortunately I was able to pull 2 packages from an older repository and
install them.

After that I basically only let btnx-config detect the one special key
we wanted to map and then assigned it a key event in its GUI.

I don't have access to the machine right now ... but I assume it
wouldn't make much sense to show the resulting config-file as other
people use other mice and map other keys.

Stefan