Re: mouse scroll-wheel side-click configuration?

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fred smith wrote:
  > I've got this logitech v220 notebook mouse, and the scroll wheel
> can be clicked left or right as well as rotated or clicked by
> pressing down.
> 
> "normal" usage (i.e., left click, right click, middle click, and
> rotation of scroll wheel) works fine.
> 
> Using xev I don't see anything reported for the side-click of the scroll
> wheel, so it may be that without some action by a driver, that the
> side-clicks aren't enabled. I suspect that Logitech's windoze driver
> tweaks the mouse in some way that "turns on" the additional actions of
> pressing the wheel to the left or right.
> 
> The package lists LInux (2.6 kernel) as a supported OS, but of course
> they provide only windows/mac drivers for it, and the web site explicitly
> lists Linux as not supported. Talk about mixed messages.
> 
> It's not a big deal, was just wondering if there was a way to recognize
> those clicks, in case there was something useful to be done with them.
> 
> I've tried tweaking xorg.conf to increase number of buttons and changing
> z-axis from "4 5" to "6 7" but that stops the scroll wheel from working
> at all, so I put it back.
> 
> Fred

Hmm. It took me 30-40 seconds to find this:

http://www.hidpoint.com/hidpoint/download.html
http://mikebeach.org/2010/06/logitech-devices-on-ubuntu-linux-and-others/

It's proprietary but free to download it looks.

Ljubomir
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