Multiple mice (touchpad/bluetooth/etc)

[Eric Anderson]

Bohdan Horst wrote:
> On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 11:06:25AM -0700, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
>> Eric Anderson wrote:
>>> On my laptop, I have 2 mouse devices - one is the built in touchpad 
>>> (synaptics), and one is a bluetooth mouse.  My touchpad has two buttons, 
>>> and my bluetooth mouse has many (9 I think).  For my bluetooth mouse to 
>>> work, I need to have a line like this in my .xinitrc:
>>>
>>> xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 3 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13"
>>>
>>> Of course, that makes my second button on my touchpad be button three, 
>>> which I don't want.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to enable 3 button emulation on the touchpad, but not 
>>> on a usb mouse (the bluetooth one), and enable the button swapping on 
>>> the bluetooth one, but not on the touchpad?
>> switch buttons in bthidd. please see bin/94577 for more details.
>>
> 
> touchpad with 2bt and usb mouse with 3bt(+roll) :
> 
> 
> rc.conf:
> 
> moused_enable="YES"
> moused_ums0_flags=""
> moused_flags="-3"
> 
> 
> xorg.conf:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
>         Driver      "mouse"
>         Option      "Protocol" "auto"
>         Option      "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
>         Option      "Buttons" "5"
>         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
> 
> 
> maybe this will help a little (i don't need button swapping..)
> 
> 
> regards
> 


That works great, thanks!

Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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