Comments on The Marble Mouse scroll buttons finally work!

  1. Better configuration

    I think I got a slightly better configuration for this trackball (thanks to your webpage as starting point and other google results).

    This is my final configuration:

    Left mouse button: works as an standard left mous button.
    Right mouse button: works as an standard right mous button.
    Left+Right mouse button: Emulates the middle mouse button.
    Left tiny button pressed + trackball: Scrolls selected window up and down. While left tiny button is pressed the trackball acts as a mouse wheel.
    Right tiny button: scroll down (I have not yet configured it to be the "real" middle mouse button).

    This is my xorg.conf section:

    Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Configured Mouse"
    Driver "mouse"
    Option "CorePointer"
    Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
    Option "Buttons" "7"
    Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
    Option "EmulateWheel" "1"
    Option "EmulateWheelButton" "4"
    Option "EmulateWheelInertia" "12"
    Option "Resolution" "350" # This seems to have no effect
    EndSection

    In theory to convert the tiny right mouse button into the middle mouse button we should use this command:
    xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 5 3 4 2 6 7"

    Problem: when I execute this command the Wheel Emulation stops working.

    Thanks for your post.

    • Comment posted on Thursday 14 Dec 2006 at 5:13pm
    • By Jordi

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