[gentoo-user] Re: off-topic: logitech mice (MX1000)

[walt <w41ter@gmail.com>]

On 12/16/2009 07:51 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> At Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:36:45 -0500 Albert Hopkins<marduk@letterboxes.org>  wrote:
>
>> FWIW, I have a Logitech mouse with a wheel that scrolls up and down,
>> presses down, and clicks left and right.  All seem to work fine, except
>> I don't use the latter as I haven't found any purpose for it although I
>> could possibly see it replacing ALT-Tab.  Nah... to confusing.
>
> Right.  Mine (MX 1000) has those plus others (I inherited the mouse).
> My problem is that several of these send multiple events (i.e. clicking
> one physical button results in two button-down events for different X11
> buttons and then the corresponding two button-up events).

That's why I was wondering if just a simple front-or-back turn of the
wheel also produces two different button events for each notch -- you
should see only button-4 events for forward and only button-5 events for
backward.  (I actually see two button-4 events for each notch forward,
but the 'state' differs between the first and second event.)