Tuesday 16 March 2010

Dodgy mouse mappings

So you're trying to use (say) your middle mouse button to copy/paste and the darn thing isn't working.... Well there's a bunch of things that control this (see a some articles here, and uhere, khere). Basically if you want paste working with a particular mouse button then you need to make sure it is the second one (ie button two) in the list; So for a normal 3 button mouse the mouse maps (see below) should read: 1 2 3 .... But for ,say a Logitech Trackball, the mapping may want to look like this: 1 8 3 4 .... (as the small left button on these trackball's is actually numbered 8 - check using xinput query-state your_mouse_id).
  • List your input devices using:

    xinput list 
    List mappings using your mouse's 'id' (from xinput list):

    xinput get-button-map your_mouse_id
  • The X config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf file at the InputDevice section
  • The xmodmap set-up - have you got a .Xmodmap or .modmaprc file lurking? Check your existing setting like this:
    xmodmap -pp
  • The HAL policy - see /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ - any special config there? (NB: HAL disappears from Ubuntu after Karmic 9.10)
  • The UDEV rules - see /etc/udev/rules.d/ and/or /lib/udev/rules.d/
[updated:17jun10]

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