Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 15:35:33 -0500 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>, adrian@virginia.edu, jedi@best.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4 button logitech mouse Message-ID: <19980612153533.08429@papillon.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980611115504.11594A-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>; from Chris Dillon on Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 11:59:12AM -0500 References: <19980611060715.49263@papillon.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980611115504.11594A-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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On Thu, 11 June 1998 at 11:59:12 -0500, Chris Dillon wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>>>> I believe he's talking about the Logitec TrackMan Marble FX. I wanted one
>>>> but my purchesing guy got the regular Marble. Which is nice too.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I just bought one of the TrackMan Marble FXs, and X definately recognises
>>> the fourth button. Haven't found much of a use for it yet, but it does DO
>>> something at least. This is also the best trackball I've ever laid my
>>> hands on (literally). :-)
>>
>> How does it recognize it? As button 4? Or as something else?
>
> I believe it recognizes it as button 4, yes. I use Afterstep
> 1.4.something and the button acts almost exactly like Button 1 (i.e.
> changes focus of windows, pops up a menu on the desktop, etc.) but doesn't
> perform any of the actions that Button 1 does (menu selections, etc). It
> does act differently when selecting text in an xterm, too. Clicking
> button 1 causes only text you drag across to be selected, button 2 pastes
> it, button 3 selects lines and button 4 selects words (I think.. I'm not
> at my machine right now).
Could you run xev for me, please, and send me the results? With a
standard 3 button mouse, I get:
ButtonPress event, serial 18, synthetic NO, window 0x3800001,
root 0x2a, subw 0x0, time 35459606, (104,115), root:(237,168),
state 0x0, button 1, same_screen YES
ButtonRelease event, serial 18, synthetic NO, window 0x3800001,
root 0x2a, subw 0x0, time 35459659, (104,115), root:(237,168),
state 0x100, button 1, same_screen YES
ButtonPress event, serial 18, synthetic NO, window 0x3800001,
root 0x2a, subw 0x0, time 35488856, (92,135), root:(225,188),
state 0x0, button 2, same_screen YES
ButtonRelease event, serial 18, synthetic NO, window 0x3800001,
root 0x2a, subw 0x0, time 35488936, (92,135), root:(225,188),
state 0x200, button 2, same_screen YES
ButtonPress event, serial 18, synthetic NO, window 0x3800001,
root 0x2a, subw 0x0, time 35473926, (48,145), root:(181,198),
state 0x0, button 3, same_screen YES
ButtonRelease event, serial 18, synthetic NO, window 0x3800001,
root 0x2a, subw 0x0, time 35473968, (48,145), root:(181,198),
state 0x400, button 3, same_screen YES
I'd like to know what you get for button 4, the roller up, and the
roller down.
Greg
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