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mystique

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Registered: 2012-12-04

Posts: 4

Kensington SlimBlade Trackball

Just received this as a gift from my wife.. (it's quite a cool device if you are into these sort of things.. )

I'd like to get it to work so I can work again, as it has crippled my day to day life..

Anyway I can't seem to get the 'chord/paste' thing to happen as well as the 'left mouse drag and highlight to clipboard' and I'm totally at a loss as to where to begin or what else to look at.

Here is Xorg.0.log

[    58.834] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Kensington Kensington Slimblade Trackball (/dev/input/event9)
[    58.834] (**) Kensington Kensington Slimblade Trackball: Applying InputClass "evdev pointer catchall"
[    58.834] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Kensington Kensington Slimblade Trackball'
[    58.834] (**) Kensington Kensington Slimblade Trackball: always reports core events
[    58.834] (**) evdev: Kensington Kensington Slimblade Trackball: Device: "/dev/input/event9"
[    58.834] (--) evdev: Kensington Kensington Slimblade Trackball: Vendor 0x47d Product 0x2041
[    58.834] (--) evdev: Kensington Kensington Slimblade Trackball: Found 8 mouse buttons
[    58.834] (--) evdev: Kensington Kensington Slimblade Trackball: Found scroll wheel(s)
[    58.834] (--) evdev: Kensington Kensington Slimblade Trackball: Found relative axes
[    58.834] (--) evdev: Kensington Kensington Slimblade Trackball: Found x and y relative axes
[    58.834] (II) evdev: Kensington Kensington Slimblade Trackball: Configuring as mouse
[    58.834] (II) evdev: Kensington Kensington Slimblade Trackball: Adding scrollwheel support
[    58.834] (**) evdev: Kensington Kensington Slimblade Trackball: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
[    58.834] (**) evdev: Kensington Kensington Slimblade Trackball: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
[    58.834] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.6/1-1.6:1.0/input/input9/event9"
[    58.834] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Kensington Kensington Slimblade Trackball" (type: MOUSE, id 9)
[    58.834] (II) evdev: Kensington Kensington Slimblade Trackball: initialized for relative axes.
[    58.834] (**) Kensington Kensington Slimblade Trackball: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
[    58.834] (**) Kensington Kensington Slimblade Trackball: (accel) acceleration profile 0
[    58.834] (**) Kensington Kensington Slimblade Trackball: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
[    58.834] (**) Kensington Kensington Slimblade Trackball: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4
[    58.834] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Kensington Kensington Slimblade Trackball (/dev/input/mouse0)

Using urxvtc I can highlight with the left, but nothing is captured; right clicking obviously brings up no menu..

I've been 'Shift + Insert' to get things from 'Chrome' and things I can 'right click and choose copy' ..

Using something like lxterminal I can copy and paste with the 'right menu button' or 'Shift + Ctrl + C'

How can I get this device to work?

Using xev I find it makes tons of output; but I have no idea how to to use this in a useful way to help myself.

Thanks in advance.

xpixelz

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From: Tunisia

Registered: 2012-02-29

Posts: 47

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Re: Kensington SlimBlade Trackball

Your trackball is working fine, you just have to auto synchronize between primary and secondary X clipboards.
You may use autocutsel like this :

autocutsel -selection CLIPBOARD -fork && autocutsel -selection PRIMARY -fork

~> yaourt -Ss autocutsel
community/autocutsel 0.9.0-7
    synchronizes the two copy/paste buffers mainly used by X applications

Or xclip this way : xclip -s PRIMARY -o | xclip -s CLIPBOARD

~> yaourt -Ss xclip
extra/xclip 0.12-3 [installed]
    Command line interface to the X11 clipboard