[Ilugc] Re: Mouse Configuration in X

[Satish Chandra]

On 11/5/06, Satish Chandra <satish.c7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a MS comfort optical mouse 3000 which has a tilt wheel (scroll
> left and right, up and down) and a thumb button in addition to the
> left and right buttons. Right now in my Ubuntu install, the mouse is
> working with these options - left click, right click, up/down scroll
> and the thumb button works as left click. I want to configure the
> mouse to enable the tilt function and use the thumb button as middle
> click.
>
> My current xorg.conf entry for mouse:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier     "Configured Mouse"
>     Driver         "mouse"
>     Option         "CorePointer"
>     Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>     Option         "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
>     Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> Can anyone give me some pointers on how to enable the tilt wheel and
> the thumb button?
>

After some googling I came this HOWTO:
http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/wiwimod/index.php?page=HOWTO+Mouse+Buttons
and I got the thumb button to work as middle click. Basically I used
xmodmap to change the middle click button. Still couldn't get the tilt
wheel to work.

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Regards,
Satish