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Re: Attn: Marek

From	owl <owl@rooftop.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: Attn: Marek
Date	2017-04-10 22:59 +0000
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Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> wrote:
> On 2017-04-10, owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> wrote:
>> Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> wrote:
>>> On 2017-04-10, owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> wrote:
>>>> Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 2017-04-10, owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>> I know you love gadgets and have money to throw around, so how
>>>>>> about giving this a Linux review:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.3dconnexion.com/products/cadmouse
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 99 bucks, but has dedicated middle button separate from scroll wheel.
>>>>>> (I'm starting to get a lot of double-pasting with my logitech).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This says it's recognized as a standard mouse and scroll wheel
>>>>>> and middle button work as expected:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.3dconnexion.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=11161
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This provides better user config options:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/lachs0r/cadmousectl
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'd be interested if it didn't have the side buttons. I avoid those like
>>>>> the plague. Those forward / back buttons always get hit by accident and
>>>>> browsers then change the site and/or page I am on and tend to drive me
>>>>> crazy. Good idea about have a real third button and a scroll wheel, but
>>>>> they need to lose the extra stupid buttons that serve no purpose. It
>>>>> should have three buttons and the scroll wheel. Maybe the scroll wheel
>>>>> is what should be on the side. And have three normal sized buttons on
>>>>> top. 
>>>>> 
>>>>
>>>> Those side buttons can surely be disabled though, or they might not
>>>> even work under Linux without a little nudging.  Do you know of another
>>>> mouse with 3 buttons + wheel?
>>> 
>>> Now, I bought an IBM 3 button mouse but it has no wheel, which I end up
>>> wanting more than the third button. And those buttons tend to end up
>>> being forward and back buttons which screw up viewing of web pages with
>>> the slightest touch. This is pretty close. 
>>> 
>>
>> Can you not disable them with xinput?
> 
> Not through the basic controls that come with Linux. I'd likely have to
> add something, which I haven't done. I don't do a ton of copy and paste
> anyway. 
> 

Did you try

xinput --set-button-map <dev id> 1 2 3 0 0 ...

to disable buttons 4 and beyond?

Get dev id with

xinput --list

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Attn: Marek owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-10 19:42 +0000
  Re: Attn: Marek Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-04-10 14:53 -0500
    Re: Attn: Marek Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-10 12:59 -0700
    Re: Attn: Marek owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-10 20:11 +0000
      Re: Attn: Marek Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-10 13:25 -0700
      Re: Attn: Marek Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-04-10 16:06 -0500
        Re: Attn: Marek owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-10 22:28 +0000
          Re: Attn: Marek Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-04-10 17:50 -0500
            Re: Attn: Marek owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-10 22:59 +0000
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                Re: Attn: Marek owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-11 00:22 +0000
                Re: Attn: Marek Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2017-04-10 19:43 -0500
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              Re: Attn: Marek Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-10 17:02 -0700
            Re: Attn: Marek Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2017-04-11 06:05 -0400
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      Re: Attn: Marek Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2017-04-10 18:41 -0400
        Re: Attn: Marek owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-10 23:00 +0000
          Re: Attn: Marek Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2017-04-11 06:02 -0400
            Re: Attn: Marek chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-11 06:40 -0500
              Re: Attn: Marek Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-11 11:18 -0700
            Re: Attn: Marek owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-11 14:13 +0000
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        Re: Attn: Marek vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2017-04-10 23:02 +0000
        Re: Attn: Marek flatfish+++ <flatfish@cutey.com> - 2017-04-10 22:29 -0400
          Re: Attn: Marek Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-10 19:42 -0700
          Re: Attn: Marek "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> - 2017-04-11 09:20 +0000
            Re: Attn: Marek chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-11 06:46 -0500
              Re: Attn: Marek Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2017-04-11 09:16 -0400
            Re: Attn: Marek DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-11 09:50 -0400
              Re: Attn: Marek Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-11 11:16 -0700
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