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incantator

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Registered: 2018-10-19

Posts: 15

Some of the mouse buttons are not working.

I've installed Arch Linux with XFCE on VMware Workstation. The problem is that some of my buttons are not working, namely back/forward/middle(scroll). My mouse is Maxtill g10, and the problem persists even after disabling the mouse software provided by the manufacturer. I've followed the [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mouse_buttons] as following - which was very confusing btw - but it didn't work:

[incantator@swyLinux ~]$ egrep "Name|Handlers" /proc/bus/input/devices | egrep -B1 'Handlers.*mouse'
N: Name="VMware VMware Virtual USB Mouse"
H: Handlers=event2 mouse0 
--
N: Name="VirtualPS/2 VMware VMMouse"
H: Handlers=event4 mouse1 
N: Name="VirtualPS/2 VMware VMMouse"
H: Handlers=event5 mouse2 

[incantator@swyLinux ~]$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier      "Evdev Mouse"
  Driver          "evdev"
  Option          "Name" "VMware VMware Virtual USB Mouse"
  Option          "evBits"  "+1-2"
  Option          "keyBits" "~272-287"
  Option          "relBits" "~0-2 ~6 ~8"
  Option          "Pass"    "3"
  Option          "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier     "Default Layout"
  InputDevice    "Evdev Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

If I go to settings-mouse in XFCE, indeed the current mouse is called "VMware VMware Virtual USB Mouse" even before this setting, but I'm not sure what I've done is correct.

Please help me configuring the buttons...  I couldn't do anything about this issue for a whole week now. I'll provide as many details as needed.

Last edited by incantator (2018-10-29 11:20:31)