How-To Logitech MX400 + Touchpad (FC6)

[beissemj]

First of all, since Xorg has become modularized (v7.0) and FC6 uses v7.1.1 the way of handing input devices has change a bit. For mice, you no longer need to do xmodmap or other strange things to get your side button on a mouse to work. Things can pretty well be handled w/in the xorg.conf

That being said, getting Xorg to play nice with a laptop's touchpad AND an external mouse can be annoying. If you don't tell him what to do he isn't very good at sharing and that can lead to bad things like: the touchpad works great, but the external mouse's side buttons don't work, or those nice side buttons work but the touchpad has limitied functionality. This will solve all your problems.


Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Synaptics" "SendCoreEvents"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "yes"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
. . .
Option "SHMConfig" "true"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Name" "Logitech MX400 Optical Mouse"
Option "Resolution" "1200"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Buttons" "9"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7 8 9"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection


This also lets you plug/unplug the mouse as needed without losing functionality.

[beissemj]

This also works for a Microsoft Intellimouse Optical Mouse.

[BoyWonder410]

I have a logitech MX 400, and I've copy-pasted that section of the xorg.conf (since, you were using the same mouse) and the top three buttons (zoom +, zoom - and zoom reset) aren't working. I've tried binding them in wow and I can't, and i cant seem to find a place in gnome to bind them to a key combination or a certain functionality. any help would be appreciated.

[beissemj]

I'm not sure what you mean by the zoom +, zoom -, and zoom reset. Are you refering to the scrollwheel left and right movement? If you are then those don't work under linux at all under linux because the keypresses aren't detected (at least according to xev).

[BoyWonder410]

sorry for the confusion, i may have mistaken my model number.

i have three buttons on the top like this mouse
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/US/EN,CRID=2135,CONTENTID=10917

i dont have the two buttons in the back that look likek email and chat, it's three buttons near the front on the top of the mouse, to the left of the left click. they dont work.