[CentOS] mouse scroll-wheel side-click configuration?

[fred smith]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 09:39:52AM +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> fred smith wrote:
>   > I've got this logitech v220 notebook mouse, and the scroll wheel
> > can be clicked left or right as well as rotated or clicked by
> > pressing down.
> > 
> > "normal" usage (i.e., left click, right click, middle click, and
> > rotation of scroll wheel) works fine.
> > 
> > Using xev I don't see anything reported for the side-click of the scroll
> > wheel, so it may be that without some action by a driver, that the
> > side-clicks aren't enabled. I suspect that Logitech's windoze driver
> > tweaks the mouse in some way that "turns on" the additional actions of
> > pressing the wheel to the left or right.
> > 
> > The package lists LInux (2.6 kernel) as a supported OS, but of course
> > they provide only windows/mac drivers for it, and the web site explicitly
> > lists Linux as not supported. Talk about mixed messages.
> > 
> > It's not a big deal, was just wondering if there was a way to recognize
> > those clicks, in case there was something useful to be done with them.
> > 
> > I've tried tweaking xorg.conf to increase number of buttons and changing
> > z-axis from "4 5" to "6 7" but that stops the scroll wheel from working
> > at all, so I put it back.
> > 
> > Fred
> 
> Hmm. It took me 30-40 seconds to find this:
> 
> http://www.hidpoint.com/hidpoint/download.html
> http://mikebeach.org/2010/06/logitech-devices-on-ubuntu-linux-and-others/
> 
> It's proprietary but free to download it looks.

Ah, thanks! I'll check into that later today.

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