The first thing I would try is to check if the system receives events from the buttons/wheel/... whatever that contraptions of yours have:
lsusb - should show your device - you can increase verbosity with -v or -vvv or even -vvvvvv ls /dev/input/by-id/* - should show your device too Example of mine: /dev/input/by-id/usb-Dell_Dell_Universal_Receiver-event- kbd /dev/input/by-id/usb-Dell_Dell_Universal_Receiver-if01-mouse /dev/input/by-id/usb-Dell_Dell_Universal_Receiver-if01-event- mouse /dev/input/by-id/usb-J8AF926V8_Integrated_Camera-event-if00 see if you get data from your raw device (example mine) sudo cat /dev/input/by-id/usb-Dell_Dell_Universal_Receiver-if01-mouse now - if you press the buttons, move the wheel/ball you should observe some response in the terminal. Ctrl-C will get you out of the cat /dev/.... If you observed responses on your not working buttons/wheel/... events you should be able to configure/map those to work with some google-fu. Maybe start here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mouse_buttons https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Logitech_Marble_Mouse https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/map-mouse-on-linux/ links above courtesy of: https://lmgtfy.com/?q=linux+X+mouse+trackball+button+configuration Hope it helps, Tomas On Fri, 2019-07-05 at 15:36 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > I've discovered there is no working 'middle' button to paste highlighted text > with my new Kensington Orbit trackball with scroll ring. The left button > highlights text and the ring scrolls scrollable pages up and down. I've no > idea what the right button does as I've not tried using it. But, when I > highlight text with the left button I cannot paste it to another virtual > terminal or application. Pressing both left and right buttons does nothing. > > The software disk that came with the unit is for only Windoze and Macs. > > Searching the web for button controls (to be entered in > /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf) finds nothing but copies of the > one-page 'users manual' and vendors selling the item. > > I found a web page on setting button mappings for the Kensington Slimblade > (for Ubuntu, but it's the same config file on Slackware) and would like to > find Orbit Scroll Ring button mappings I can put in 10-evdev.conf so I can > make the left-right button chord be the middle button that pastes > highlighted text. I find information on the company's Slimblade and Expert > Mouse but not on the Orbit w/scroll ring. > > Help appreciated, > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug