On 10 Aug 2001 09:15:40 +0200, Markus Mårtensson wrote:
>
> After trying out fvwm 2.4.0 a while, I finally came up with a use for
> my "thumb button" (Logitech MouseMan+). My thought was that if I have to
> press alt to be able to draw a gesture, then I might as well press
> ctrlalt-enter to open a terminal and skip libstroke altogether.
> But if I, on the hand, was able to use only the mouse to draw gestures,
> then it would suddenly a useful feature.
>
> Enter the "thumb button". Counting the mouse wheel as two buttons, there
> was sadly no mouse button left for fvwm to detect (the old X heritage
> of a maximum of five buttons). I thought I'd let the program imwheel
> map button clicks to keystrokes for me. Now we're getting to my
> problem.
>
> Mouse 3 W M StrokeFunc FeedBack DrawMotion
> StrokeWidth 2
> Key Home A CS StrokeFunc FeedBack DrawMotion
> StrokeWidth 2 NotStayPressed
>
> Using the alt+mouse3 works great. DrawMotion works and the functions are
> run. Using the "thumb key", or pressing "Ctrl-Shift-Home" directly,
> only DrawMotion works... _no_ function is run. Appending NotStayPressed
> to the alt+mouse3 line works fine, I just click a mouse button after
> I'm done with the gesture. No matter what I do after drawing a "thumb
> gesture", I can't get a function to launch.
>
> Thoughts anyone?
First, determine whether X sees your thumb button. Fire xev and press
this button to see whether it generates any event.
It is possible to configure XFree 4.x to work with more than 5 buttons.
you may optionally remap button numbers using something like:
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 6 3 2 4 5"
then, supposing you mapped your thumb button to mouse button 4, use:
Mouse 4 A A StrokeFunc FeedBack DrawMotion StrokeWidth 2
Actually, it is possible to make it work even if thumb button has number
greater than 5, for example 6. For this to work you may apply the
following one-line patch, so that fvwm may work with any button number:
In file fvwm/bindings.c replace this line and reinstall:
- if (button < 0 || button > NUMBER_OF_MOUSE_BUTTONS)
+ if (button < 0 || button > 9)
Then you may do something like:
Mouse 6 A A StrokeFunc FeedBack DrawMotion StrokeWidth 2 NotStayPressed
But remember to use NotStayPressed, because X does not support dragging
of buttons with numbers greater than 5.
Continue to ask if you still have problems.
Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Fri Aug 10 2001 - 19:21:09 BST