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Bug 59532 - Mouse buttons 6 and 7 not useable
Mouse buttons 6 and 7 not useable
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: galeon
Classification: Deprecated
Component: User interface
0.x
Other Linux
: Low enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: Daniel Erat
Daniel Erat
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-08-25 11:07 UTC by Stefan Furtmayr
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Stefan Furtmayr 2001-08-25 11:07:32 UTC
There is no menu entry for additional buttons (left and right side on my
mouse).

All mice in the optical and explorer series from MS have these buttons (see
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouse/mouse.asp)

There are also some Logitech mice with a fourth button:
http://www.logitech.com/cf/products/mice.cfm
Comment 1 Stefan Furtmayr 2001-08-25 11:12:33 UTC
Forgot to tell how i use them under Windows: they are great for
navigating forward and back
Comment 2 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2001-08-25 18:59:06 UTC
Patches are welcome ... I dont think developers has such a mouse. Also
I dont know how X/gtk/mozilla support them
Comment 3 Daniel Erat 2001-08-26 23:53:32 UTC
Here, mouse buttons 4 and 5 are up and down, respectively, on the
mouse wheel.  I imagine that it would be easy to add support for the
extra buttons, if you can tell us what they're mapped as in your
XF86Config (6 and 7?).
Comment 4 Stefan Furtmayr 2001-08-28 21:23:35 UTC
Such mice are a bit tricky to set up.

The following pages may be helpful:
http://koala.ilog.fr/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
http://koala.ilog.fr/anyboard/MouseWheel/posts/1029.html
http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/newbie/2001-July/008967.html
http://ftp.xfree86.wox.org/4.1.0/doc/README.mouse
http://www.teamstaroffice.org/de/howto/linmouse/linmouse.html

Here it is button 6/7 (tested with "xev")

My configuration (RedHat 7.1 / XFree86 4.1.0 / MS IntelliMouse Optical):

* /etc/X11/Xmodmap 

pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5

---

* /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

Section "InputDevice"
    Driver    "mouse"
    ...
    Option    "Buttons"      "7"
    Option    "Protocol"    "ExplorerPS/2"
    Option    "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
    ...
EndSection
Comment 5 Daniel Erat 2001-08-29 16:59:44 UTC
I just committed a small patch to CVS that should hopefully make it so
buttons 6 and 7 make the embed go back and forward, respectively.  Is
a pref configuring what the buttons do necessary?  (I doubt it; I
think very few people have these mice.)
Comment 6 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2001-08-29 19:12:34 UTC
Nah, we dont need a pref ;) Can I mark it as fixed ?
Comment 7 Yanko Kaneti 2001-08-29 19:53:10 UTC
yes, for now:)
Comment 8 Stefan Furtmayr 2001-08-29 21:42:30 UTC
It would useful to have a small note on the prefs page about that
function even if it is hardcoded.
I also think using these buttons in combination with CTRL would be a
good way to switch between the tabs.
Hopefully these really useful mice will become more common.
Comment 9 Daniel Erat 2001-08-29 22:06:54 UTC
I'll add a note about this the next time I update the manual.

If these type of mice become popular, I think it would be good to add
a pref to make the extra buttons do things like switching tabs, but I
don't think it's necessary at this point.
Comment 10 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2001-09-02 22:06:12 UTC
Daniel, reassigning to you. Am I wrong or this is not fixed ?
Comment 11 Daniel Erat 2001-09-02 23:26:57 UTC
It sounds like it doesn't work yet.  Adam Lopresto
<adam@express.cec.wustl.edu> mailed me a while back saying he made the
same change to his local copy of Galeon about a month ago, but that
Mozilla is passing button 0 instead of buttons 6 and 7.

This seems to be related to
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30431 .  I'll post there
asking what the current status of this is.
Comment 12 Daniel Erat 2001-12-02 18:41:29 UTC
Marking NOTGNOME, since as far as I know, this is a Mozilla problem.