On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 12:32, William W. Austin wrote: > My wife has just presented me with a Logitech MX700 mouse. > > Very nice. Optical. Wireless. scroll and 2 buttons work nicely. > > HOWEVER, this is an 8-button mouse. > > I RTFM'ed last night but so far haven't found anything really useful on getting > the other buttons recognized and/or working under X. Also to be honest, I > haven't seen any apps that are crying out for more than the usual number of > buttons plus scrolling wheel. > > Any pointers on HOWTO's on this one (and suggestions for uses on the buttons) > would be greatly appreciated. I'm using KDE desktop at the moment (haven't had > any luck getting e17 working on RH 9 so far) and am not sufficiently expert in > kde to know (and haven't found anything on it so far) how *it* deals with > additional buttons either. (had old logitech 4 button / no scroll-wheel mouse > working under e16: same tricks do not appear to work now... sigh.) > > Thanks in advance In the "InputDevice" "Mouse0" section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config, below the "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Add: Option "Buttons" "8" You should know however, that even though X may recognize all 8 buttons, it doesn't mean that programs will accept or recognize them. Many things limit their support to no more than 3-5 buttons. -- Shawn <drevil@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.warpcore.org/
