mouse weirdness sort of solved (was: re: my debian machine)

[Steve Litt]

Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 26 Aug 2021 16:44:26 -0700

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>> [0] And confuse people.  My mouse has left, middle, right, wheel up,
>> wheel down, and 2 mystery buttons.  xmodmap reports 10 buttons.
>> Mystery button 1 reports a button 9 event.  Mystery button 2 switches
>> to the next window and does not report a button event.  *shrug*  
>
>I've partially solved this.  The first button consistently reports a 
>button 9 event.  When button 9 is being held, pushing the second
>button reports a button 8 event.  Pushing the second button by itself
>produces a KeyPress event for Shift_L, another for Meta_L, then a
>KeymapNotify that probably clears the Shift modifier, then KeyReleases
>event for ISO_Left_Tab and Meta_L.  Which is interesting but not
>particularly useful.  I still don't know where buttons 6, 7, and 10
>are on this thing.

That's the craziest nonsense I've ever heard out of a mouse. Is that
mouse programmable or something? Can I safely assume an ordinary 3
button mouse does the expected, not the craziness of your mouse?

If the 3 button mouse does something crazy, is there a .conf file for
your mouse? The behavior you report is el-nutzo, meshugana, loco, and
out of the ordinary.

SteveT

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