Hi Bruno,
AWESOME!! Thanks a lot! You can add "MX Vertical" to the list of the
successfully tested pointing devices :D
I just made some minor changes as this mouse only has 2 additional
physical buttons (no secondary wheel, nor anything else). I removed the
WAxis and lowered the button numbers on the ZAxis:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Logitech MX Vertical"
MatchDriver "ws"
Driver "ws"
Option "Buttons" "16"
Option "Device" "/dev/wsmouse"
Option "Floating" "false"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection
And adjusted xmodmap:
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 8 9 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 13 14 15 16"
This way everything works as expected! Nice!
Some time ago I also saw your other great guide about extra keys on USB
keyboards (https://www.bsdhowto.ch/extrakeys.html) and used some ideas
from it. I'd like to suggest one thing though: not to run usbhidaction
from rc (it could be started under regular users from their WM startup
scripts) and not to put the actual commands in the usbhidaction config,
but rather to call from there xdotool for each button with the key codes
to generate (e.g. "xdotool key XF86Mail" XF86LaunchA-Z,
XF86AudioPlay/Stop, etc.) and then to capture them with xbindkeys.
If you exec programs directly by usbhidaction the way you launch it,
they'd be executed under root and some users reading your guide may not
understand the implications. Also this way it's impossible for each user
to customize the actions.
I tried to go even further and to detect the keyboard when it's attached
with hotplugd & usbdevs/lsusb (for vendor/product IDs), but then I
couldn't solve the link between uhidev & uhid instances
(https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=156499209423144&w=2). Please let me
know if you have any idea how to solve this.
Regards,
Anatoli
On 20/8/19 03:25, Bruno Flueckiger wrote:
On 19.08., Anatoli wrote:
I'm using Logitech MX Vertical. Nice mouse, IMO one of the most ergonomic
ones though it needs some adaptation. It has 2 additional buttons which do
NOT work on -current (better to say, they work like scrolling the wheel
instead being left and right), I'd like to know how to make them work BTW.
On Linux it works well.
Oliver Marugg wrote:
Hi
I am preparing switching my desktop from another OS to OpenBSD. Is
anyone using an Evoluent USB Wired Mouse (C/4 or 4 small) with OpenBSD?
Or any other great ideas about an ergonomic mouse working with OpenBSD?
Many thanks.
-oliver
I use the Logitech Performance MX trackball. Like Anatoli I had the
problem that the two additional buttons behave like the scroll wheel. I
solved this issue last year. You can find my how-to here:
https://www.bsdhowto.ch/mousekeys.html
Cheers,
Bruno
