Using the buttons on the Logitech Trackman Marble FX

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 12:27:05PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> It has no real moving parts, and I suspect that unless my toddler hides
>> the ball (again) I'll be able to use it for a long time.  It doesn't
>> have a scroll mechanism though, which is too bad.  It does have a wee
>> button just below the "middle" button that could be used as a scroll
>> indicator, where you press it and then cursor movement causes a
>> corresponding scroll.  Here's the question - how do I do that?
>
>Almost certainly you don't.  The wheel sends button events, which is
>what everything expects.  Turning the cursor movement into button events
>would be hard.

It may be, but the work is done - the Option is "EmulateWheel", which
requires these other Options - EmulateWheelButton, EmulateWheelInertia
and EmulateWheelTimeout.

>> I see several web pages describing the xorg configs that I would need to
>> do this, but they require that the button have a button number.  As far
>> as I can tell, this button isn't talking to X - when I run xev, pressing
>> the button does nothing.  Is this because I need to activate the button
>> first in the config, or is it just not functional?  Any advice would be
>> appreciated.  Thanks!
>
>It may only have a purpose internally in the thingy.  It may also be you
>are using the wrong mouse protocol in which case you won't receive any
>extra buttons.

This is a good tip - I will try other Protocols and see if my button
suddenly wakes up.  Thanks!  I'll report my progress as I make it.
-- 

yours,

William

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