New way to map mouse buttons?

[bike_head]

I've upgraded to FC11 and I've noticed that the extra buttons on my Logitech mx1000 mouse are now detected. However most of them aren't mapped to anything.

In the past one would start changing the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Lately, there seems to be movement away from changing this file and I notice that the default xorg.conf has no entry in it for the mouse. Is there a new preferred way to map mouse buttons? I'd like to make buttons 6 and 7 scroll horizontally and button 10 instruct compiz to show all windows.

Thanks for any help

[tpharris]

I'm curious of this same thing. Anyone know of a way? I just started using mumble on linux and my push-to-talk button (in windows) is mapped to the side mouse button. In Fedora it's not mapped to anything.

[zackf]

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=82361

[tpharris]

I ran into that thread already and what confuses me is I do not have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file or any 'xorg.conf'. So am I supposed to create one from scratch included with the lines from the link? It appears that X doesn't uses xorg.conf anymore.

[rexbinary]

Originally Posted by tpharris

I ran into that thread already and what confuses me is I do not have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file or any 'xorg.conf'. So am I supposed to create one from scratch included with the lines from the link? It appears that X doesn't uses xorg.conf anymore.

You won't have a xorg.conf with modern versions of Xorg as they are not normally needed anymore. If you create xorg.conf, Xorg will use it. So yes, you would need to create one from scratch to configure your mouse buttons differently then as deteched by Xorg by default.

[zackf]

You're absolutely right, I'm still on F10, but you can manually generate it.

See this post by sideways from when F11 was in Rawhide:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpo...06&postcount=2

[bbfuller]

Hello everyone,

There is a new way of controlling touchpads and configuring them in F11.

See text below.

Copy this file:

/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi

into:

"/etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-synaptics.fdi"

This may well restore full functionality for a Synaptics touchpad but does not enable double tap to drag for my Alps touchpad.

To achieve that I have merged an extra line in the "10-synaptics.fdi" specified that reads:

<merge key="input.x11_options.MaxTapTime" type="string">350</merge>

The full contents of the file "/etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-synaptics.fdi" now looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<!-- DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE IN PLACE.
     This file will be overwritten with the next update. If you need to add
     custom options, copy the file into /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ first. 
     
     See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Input_device_configuration -->

<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">
        <!-- To add custom options for the touchpad, modify the examples below
             to suit your needs. The available options are listed in the
             "synaptics" man page. After modifyfing this file, you must
             restart HAL. Check the output of lshal whether your modifications
             have been merged successfully.

             Note: Options must always be type "string".
             The following examples enable left, right, middle clicks on
             single, double, triple finger tapping, respectively.

             <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge>
             <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">2</merge>
             <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton3" type="string">3</merge>
        -->
	<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
	<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">2</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton3" type="string">3</merge>
	<merge key="input.x11_options.MaxTapTime" type="string">350</merge>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

You'll see that I have added a particular section which I have highlighted red that is necessary to get an Alps touchpad to double click. You probably won't need to use that. But if you run:

man synaptics

you will see all the other options you can add in its place.