cool, thank you.

I saw the xbindkeysrc mentioned, a way forward.


Greg M
On 09/06/2017 12:54 AM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> Hi Greg!
> 
>> Kensington Expert Mouse:
>>
>> Lots of info on the net about this mouse, have tried modifying xorg,
>> .xinitrc, .xmodmap per instructions, button mapping code.
>>
>>  No changes to the button assignment. Control center has a three button
>> mouse tool, it works for 3 of the 4 buttons.
> 
> I happen to use the same mouse :-)
> 
> The 4th button is button 8, you can use "xev" or "xbindkeys -k" to verify. I have used xbindkeys to map 4th button to "nextDesktop": 
> 
> # ~/.xbindkeysrc
> #BUTTON8
> "dcop twin KWinInterface nextDesktop"
>    b:8
> 
> You can also use "xinput" to modify the button assignment - I prefer this method to fiddling with Xorg settings. Here is an example from my .xinitrc for Aiptec tablet, changes button 1 to button 13:
> 
> # AIPTEK SlimTablet Pendown (Button 1) auf Button 13 mappen
> ID=$(xinput list|grep WALTOP|sed 's/^.*=\([0-9]*\).*$/\1/')
> xinput set-button-map $ID 13
> 
> For Kensington to swap button 8 and button 4:
> 
> $ xinput set-button-map $(xinput list | grep "Kensington Expert Mouse" | sed 's/^.*=\([0-9]*\).*$/\1/') 1 2 3 8 5 6 7 4 
> 
> More details about your mouse - funny that it claimes to have 12 buttons:
> 
> $ xinput list --long $(xinput list | grep "Kensington Expert Mouse" | sed 's/^.*=\([0-9]*\).*$/\1/')
> 
> Nik
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