[kde-linux] Mouse button/wheel

[Duncan]

Bruce MacArthur posted on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:16:28 -0600 as excerpted:

> On Monday 08 February 2010 09:14:53 am brian wrote:
>> I'm using KDE 4.3 on Kubuntu 64-bit, and have a Microsoft optical
>> Intellimouse, one of those with a combined centre button and wheel.
>> It's an absolute PITA, because while I'm used to using the mouse wheel
>> to scroll, I'm clumsy enough that I unintentionally do a middle click
>> at regular intervals, and that has a whole heap of unwanted effects,
>> depending on the program in use. In my days of using a certain other
>> operating system, I could just set the centre button to do nothing,
>> problem solved.
>> 
>> Is there any way to assign a null action to the centre button, and so
>> lose at least some of the unintentional input?
>> 
> Have you tried to use System Settings --> Keyboard And Mouse --> Mouse?
> 
> I am still running a system that is slightly older than yours, and I am
> not using the same rodent, so I really see no specific setting to
> adjust. I suspect that the available options depend, to some extent, on
> what hardware you have connected -- as well as the KDE version, etc.  So
> I hope this helps (while being too cowardly to promise that it will do
> so!).

FWIW, no such setting here (kde 4.4.0 but I don't believe that has changed 
from earlier versions).  The settings allow switching "handedness", that 
is, button order, but not which buttons are active.

As I suggested in my earlier reply, one has to configure xorg's mouse 
driver.  That can be evdev or mouse, depending on the xorg version, and 
controlled thru xorg.conf or thru hal's config.  If there had been a reply 
to that with the xorg version, whether it was using an xorg.conf (check 
the log or usually, /etc/X11/xorg.conf) or not, hal version, etc, I'd try 
to take it from there, but without that information...

Or, perhaps a better way would be to ask how to configure it in the 
kubuntu/ubuntu forums, as they'd presumably be familiar with what was 
shipped with whatever kubuntu version.

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