mouse button mapping

[Net Llama!]

On 11/25/2004 04:50 AM, dep wrote:
> the plot thickens -- has suse screwed around with xfree? here's why i 
> wonder:
> 
> at http://www.xfree86.org/current/mouse.html we find this --
> 
> 6.3. Kensington Thinking Mouse and Kensington Expert Mouse (serial, 
> PS/2) 
> These mice have four buttons. The Kensington Expert Mouse is really a 
> trackball. Both Thinking mice support the PnP COM device specification.
> 
> To use this mouse as a serial device: 
> 
>         Option  "Protocol"      "Auto"
> 
>  or: 
>         Option  "Protocol"      "ThinkingMouse"
> 
> To use this mouse as the PS/2 device and the OS supports PS/2 mouse 
> initialization: 
> 
>         Option  "Protocol"      "ThinkingMousePS/2"
> 
> To use this mouse as the PS/2 device but the OS does not support PS/2 
> mouse initialization (the third and the fourth buttons act as though 
> they were the first and the second buttons): 
> 
>         Option  "Protocol"      "PS/2"
> 
> To use this mouse as the PS/2 device and the OS supports automatic PS/2 
> mouse detection: 
> 
>         Option  "Protocol"      "Auto"
> 
> and there is even a suggested configuration:
> 
> The Kensington Expert mouse is really a trackball. It has 4 buttons 
> arranged in a rectangle around the ball.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "DLB"
>         Driver      "mouse"
>         Option      "Protocol" "ThinkingMousePS/2"
>         Option      "Buttons" "3"
>         Option      "Emulate3Buttons"
>         Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse"
>         Option      "DragLockButtons" "2 1 4 3"
> EndSection
> 
>  In this example, button 2 is a drag lock button for button number 1, 
> and button 4 is a drag lock button for button 3. Since button 2 is 
> above button 1 and button 4 is above button 3 in the layout of this 
> trackball, this is reasonable. 
> 
> Because button 2 is being used as a drag lock, it can not be used as an 
> ordinary button. However, it can be activated by using the 
> "Emulate3Buttons" feature. However, some people my be unable to press 
> two buttons at the same time. They may prefer the following InputDevice 
> section which defines button 4 as a master drag lock button, and leaves 
> button 2 free for ordinary use. 
> 
>  
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "MasterDLB"
>         Driver      "mouse"
>         Option      "Protocol" "ThinkingMousePS/2"
>         Option      "Buttons" "3"
>         Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse"
>         Option      "DragLockButtons" "4"
> EndSection
> 
> 
> now. the first of these configurations works, kind of. problem is, there 
> is no "ThinkingMousePS/2" protocol available. if i use plain old "PS/2" 
> i get kind of expected behavior with the thing -- the top two buttons 
> are locks of the lower two buttons -- but there is no reason i can find 
> for a drag rmb, the way a locked lmb is useful for, say, selecting test 
> or scrolling a long web page. the second configuration doesn't seem to 
> work at all.
> 
> ideally, the top left would be the lmb, the bottom left an lmb lock; the 
> top right would be the rmb, and the lower right would emulate the third 
> mouse button, which is to say would paste.
> 
> what makes me think that suse has screwed around with this is that with 
> "PS/2" and no modifiers i should have two right and two left, but i 
> don't -- i have one right -- lower right -- and one left -- lower left, 
> and two middle buttons. meanwhile, despite all my efforts to convince 
> it otherwise, suse has decided that i have an "ImPS/2 Generic Wheel 
> Mouse," which i don't. i've rerun yast to change it to plain old PS/2, 
> but all this does is get it to change my XF86Config so that the screen 
> is screwed up. i keep a backup of a good XF86Config, and can 
> cut'n'paste to include the new stuff that yast hath wrought without 
> losing my monitor config, but this is just plain screwy.
> 
> guesses or suggestions welcome.

I have no idea what SuSE did or didn't do to XFree86, but it wouldn't 
surprise me if they've hacked it a bit.  All of the big distros 
'enhance' just about everything as a value-add.  You could grab the 
latest version of XFree86 and try it out and see if that makes any 
difference.

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