Kensington mouse on Ubuntu 10.04 setup
Ok; thanks you all. I have done a fresh (new) install of Ubuntu 12.04 on a new 200G HD.
Yikes!! I hate this new GUI, Ever since I posted my Q on the Kensington mouse I have been trying to get used to this thing.
I needed to install Synaptic PM, located xautomation and installed that. Now what? Apparently this app is not GUI enabled so I need some clues to set up my mouse. In windoze I could program the mouse for different applications, however I woulkd be happy if I could use the buttons for FireFox. The lower left and right just like any mouse. The upper left in FireFox click to go back to previous webpage, and upper right to go forward. Then press-hold-release, both the upper left & right buttons to lock into the scroll mode through the open window usually webpage and text document, and maybe the file manager.
FYI; this is a Kensington "Expert Mouse USB/PS2" four button Trackball, Model #64217 which has served me since the late 1990's.
I have a copy of my terminal attempts to configure ./usr/bin/xmousepos [windowid]. It looks like there is a possibility to set this up for different "[windowid]" applications. but from here I'm lost.
Thanks to anyone with clues,
Joe
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I have an older Kensington Expert Mouse, 4 button Trackball on a USB connection. It works just fine--EXCEPT I can't find a way to configure the top 2 buttons. Which I used to use with Windows XP for scroll lock and left button to go back, and right button to go forward--usually with a browser.
I read the previous post on this subject, but it seemed to go dead after the following question:.
.joe@joe-desktop:~$ lsb_release -a; lsusb
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 03f0:1004 Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 970c/970cse
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 047d:1015 Kensington Expert Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
joe@joe-desktop:~$
BTW, I'm fairly new to Ubuntu.
Thanks, Joe
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