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Any Logitech mouse buttons does NOT work in FireFox LTSP xorg gpm imwheel yelp icedove iceweasel

Bug #147676 reported by Jan Kunder on 2007-10-01

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #42678: Need input-hotplug - solves Logitech MX500 mouse forward/back buttons not detected. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to
	firefox (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
Nominated for Gutsy by Jan Kunder
	gpm (Baltix)	New	Undecided	Unassigned
	imwheel (Debian)	New	Undecided	Unassigned
	xorg (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned
Nominated for Gutsy by Jan Kunder
	yelp (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned
Nominated for Gutsy by Jan Kunder

Bug Description

Any Logitech mouse buttons does NOT work in FireFox xorg gpm imwheel yelp icedove iceweasel etc.
So, BACK FORWARD aso buttons does NOT work or work as NOT requested.
Any Logitech MX300 MX310 MX500 MX 510 MX-518 MX700 MX-900
Any Logitech new laser mouse G3/G5/G 7/G-9
Any Logitech cordless mouse with 3+ buttons
Any Logitech mouse made after 2002 does NOT correctly work if are USB & has more than 3 buttons
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What helps (workaround - autodetect utilz (which one does it?) should DO THIS!):
edit xorg.conf
Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Configured Mouse"
    Driver "mouse"
    Option "CorePointer"
    Option "Device" "/dev/gpmdata" ## you need to install package gpm
    #Option "Protocol" "IntelliMouse"
    #Option "Protocol" "Logitech"
    #Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
    Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
    Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
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This one helps for LTSP thin clients:
        #X_MOUSE_DEVICE = "/dev/psaux"
        X_MOUSE_PROTOCOL = "ExplorerPS/2"
        X_MOUSE_RESOLUTION = 800
        X_MOUSE_BUTTONS = 10
        X_MOUSE_ZAXMAPPING = "4 5"
        X_MOUSE_BUTTONMAPPING = "1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
##***
        X_USBMOUSE_PROTOCOL = "ExplorerPS/2"
        X_USBMOUSE_RESOLUTION = 800
        X_USBMOUSE_BUTTONS = 10
        X_USBMOUSE_ZAXMAPPING = "4 5"
        X_USBMOUSE_BUTTONMAPPING = "1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
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Jan Kunder (jan-kunder) wrote on 2007-10-01:

dmesg uname version lspci syslog daemon Edit (820.0 KiB, application/x-tar)

Why the "workaround" or editing xorg.conf is NOT enough::
1. U have usual 2B mouse on COM1 & u plug in USB MX500
2. u have basic 3B PS/2 mouse & touchpad on laptop & u plug in wireless bluetooth MX-900
3. you have plugged M$ Explorer mouse & Genius scrolll mouse - you plug them both off, then you plug in wireless MX 518 or wifi laser MX-1000
4. etc. aso.
5. if you tell one computer, one mouse ... : I'll tell you: ... one OS, eine Sprache, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer

Thanks guys for maintaing packages and bringing the almost best ever distro :)

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote on 2007-10-01:

from what i see, this is not a firefox issue, If you don't think so, please reopen and clarify what firefox does wrong in your opinion.

Changed in firefox:
status:	New → Invalid

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Jan Kunder (jan-kunder) wrote on 2007-10-02:

2 Alexander Sack :
I will NOT fight against you, but I can NOT agree:
* Affects FF Gutsy very much. I think "most clicks" on these "extra buttons" are in FF for BACK/FORWARD (if we forget games). Not OOo, not any desktop.
* I'm NOT telling this IS FF bug. I'm pointing that it affects FF very bad - unusual behaviour, because (BFU will see it like: its Gutsy problem! Ubuntu s*cks). And with mouse for $50 or $150 u need to click buttons, which is NOT needed in 2K/XP/"any distro which admin has corrected and NOT used default settings"