James Tyrer posted on Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:33:39 -0700 as excerpted: > I was considering purchase of a new mouse -- wireless since the > extension cable really takes a beating. The USB cord's female connector > doesn't take stepping on it very well and I just destroyed my next to > last USB to PS/2 adapter (using the only one that still works) -- > although I have to say that the PS/2 extension cable holds up better > than the USB one. > > IAC, I was looking at a Logitech m510 which has 4 extra navigation > "buttons". IIUC, the X11 mouse driver now recognizes the extra buttons > when using "/dev/input/mice". What I wondered was if KDE-4.7.4 supports > the scroll left & right and the page up and down directly or how to set > it up.
FWIW, the dollar stores (at least the 99.99 cent chain and the dollar tree chain stores) around here have USB extension cables. Of course at that price they're not really shielded, so they aren't really appropriate for plugging thumb-drives or the like, but they work reasonably well for mouse and keyboard extenders. Between udev and the generic device-class xorg configuration (usually found in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d as 10-evdev.conf, part of the xorg- server package, here), most mice, particularly USB, are plug-N-play today, multiple buttons detected, the correct ones assigned to the wheels (both vertical and horizontal), etc. It's only when you get into the exotic stuff, customizing speed, or programming the button functions beyond seven (left/right/center/whl-up/whl-dn/whl-lft/whl/rht) that you need to start customizing things. So horizontal-scroll shouldn't be an issue. I'm not sure on buttons beyond that, I think they're detected these days, but how kde treats them, I haven't the foggiest. FWIW here, I use a logitech wireless desktop pro keyboard (ergonomic split/tilted main keyboard, plus "extra" media and inet keys, udev and evdev detects and configures the extra keys automatically), which comes with a wireless mouse too, but I don't use it. Instead, I bought a logitech trackman optical, one of those right-handed ones with the ball under the thumb. Trackballs work better for me since they're stationary, only the ball moves. But it's an older model with only the traditional five buttons (left/right/center/whl-up/whl-dn), tho I see they have a similar one with extra buttons, now. Both keyboard and trackball work with the same receiver, so I only have one of those to plug in. =:^) But I don't have horizontal scroll or additional mouse buttons I can program. =:( So I don't know what the system does with buttons beyond horizontal- scroll. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
