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aardwolf

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2005-07-23

Posts: 310

[SOLVED] How to use xinput to persistently disable mouse buttons?

Hello,

xinput --list --short gives:

⎡ Virtual core pointer                          id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Razer Razer Ouroboros Gaming Dock         id=8    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Razer Razer Ouroboros Gaming Dock         id=9    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Logitech Gaming Mouse G400                id=11   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                         id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard               id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                              id=6    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                              id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Razer Razer Ouroboros Gaming Dock         id=10   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ USB Keyboard                              id=12   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ USB Keyboard                              id=13   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Dell WMI hotkeys                          id=14   [slave  keyboard (3)]

There are three things called "Razer Razer Ouroboros Gaming Dock", but this is actually just a mouse. Because this mouse somehow manages to appear three times (maybe because it's wireless) with the exact same name, I cannot refer to it by name with xinput:

$xinput --list-props "pointer:Razer Razer Ouroboros Gaming Dock"
Warning: There are multiple devices matching 'pointer:Razer Razer Ouroboros Gaming Dock'.
To ensure the correct one is selected, please use the device ID, or prefix the
device name with 'pointer:' or 'keyboard:' as appropriate.

unable to find device pointer:Razer Razer Ouroboros Gaming Dock

However, it's possible to disable buttons of it by using its id instead, here "8" (the first number below):

xinput set-button-map 8 1 2 3 4 5 0 0 0 0 0

However, this id number changes after reboot. For example on a previous boot the id I needed was "12" instead of "8". Back then, I did:

xinput set-button-map 12 1 2 3 4 5 0 0 0 0 0

However, it turns out this button-map is not permanent! After reboot, the side-buttons I want to disable, are operational again.

So I would like to put this in .xsessionrc. But if the id number changes every time, I cannot do that!!

Is there a more permanent way to refer to a device with xinput?

Thanks.

Last edited by aardwolf (2014-09-24 11:19:59)

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,607

Re: [SOLVED] How to use xinput to persistently disable mouse buttons?

Something like this should do the trick:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-razer.conf

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "razer mouse"
        MatchIsPointer "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        MatchProduct "Razer Ouroboros Gaming Dock"
        Driver "evdev"
        Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 4 5 0 0 0 0 0"
EndSection