remapping bluetooth mouse buttons (microsoft notebook presenter 8000)
Hello, I go myself one of these toys, the microsoft wireless notebook presenter 8000 mouse which is a bluetooth mouse that can switch from mouse mode to presentation mode (it's got several presentation buttons on the back). Its recognized via bluetooth, all the top buttons are recognized (9 of them) and works well. The problem is with the presentation buttons, they work, but unlike most presentation hardware, instead of sending page up/page down they are sending some other key. xev says its 166/167 and the xfce keyboard mapping tool recognizes it as XF86Forward/XF86Back buttons. I want to get it to work with acrobat presentation which means that I need to remap these to pageup/pagedown. I want to do this preferable only for the mouse as the keyboard also has XF86Forward/XF86Back keys that I would rather leave as they are. I'm guessing that there is some hal option but I'm not sure how to do it. Any guidance is welcome. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: remapping bluetooth mouse buttons (microsoft notebook presenter 8000)
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:12:58 +0300
Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote:
Hello,
I go myself one of these toys, the microsoft wireless notebook presenter 8000
mouse which is a bluetooth mouse that can switch from mouse mode to
presentation mode (it's got several presentation buttons on the back). Its
recognized via bluetooth, all the top buttons are recognized (9 of them) and
works well.
The problem is with the presentation buttons, they work, but unlike most
presentation hardware, instead of sending page up/page down they are sending
some other key. xev says its 166/167 and the xfce keyboard mapping tool
recognizes it as XF86Forward/XF86Back buttons.
I want to get it to work with acrobat presentation which means that I need to
remap these to pageup/pagedown. I want to do this preferable only for the
mouse
as the keyboard also has XF86Forward/XF86Back keys that I would rather leave
as
they are.
I'm guessing that there is some hal option but I'm not sure how to do it.
Any guidance is welcome.
Thanks
I dug a bit deeper and tried adding a file to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ with the
content:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=ISO-8859-1?
deviceinfo version=0.2
device
match key=info.product contains=Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter
Mouse 8000
append key=input.keymap.data type=strlist167:117/append
append key=input.keymap.data type=strlist166:112/append
/match
/device
/deviceinfo
and lshal | grep keymap shows
input.keymap.data = {'167:117', '166:112'} (string list)
but it doesn't seem to have any effect
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Re: remapping bluetooth mouse buttons (microsoft notebook presenter 8000)
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:12:58 +0300 Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: Hello, I go myself one of these toys, the microsoft wireless notebook presenter 8000 mouse which is a bluetooth mouse that can switch from mouse mode to presentation mode (it's got several presentation buttons on the back). Its recognized via bluetooth, all the top buttons are recognized (9 of them) and works well. The problem is with the presentation buttons, they work, but unlike most presentation hardware, instead of sending page up/page down they are sending some other key. xev says its 166/167 and the xfce keyboard mapping tool recognizes it as XF86Forward/XF86Back buttons. I want to get it to work with acrobat presentation which means that I need to remap these to pageup/pagedown. I want to do this preferable only for the mouse as the keyboard also has XF86Forward/XF86Back keys that I would rather leave as they are. I'm guessing that there is some hal option but I'm not sure how to do it. Any guidance is welcome. Thanks Also tried lshal -m which shows: Start monitoring devicelist: - 13:23:04.575: bluetooth_acl_1dd8340a09_logicaldev_input condition ButtonPressed = play 13:23:09.038: bluetooth_acl_1dd8340a09_logicaldev_input condition ButtonPressed = forward 13:23:10.499: bluetooth_acl_1dd8340a09_logicaldev_input condition ButtonPressed = back 13:23:14.790: bluetooth_acl_1dd8340a09_logicaldev_input condition ButtonPressed = play-pause 13:23:26.442: bluetooth_acl_1dd8340a09_logicaldev_input condition ButtonPressed = forward 13:23:27.523: bluetooth_acl_1dd8340a09_logicaldev_input condition ButtonPressed = back 13:23:29.362: bluetooth_acl_1dd8340a09_logicaldev_input condition ButtonPressed = play-pause 13:23:30.056: bluetooth_acl_1dd8340a09_logicaldev_input condition ButtonPressed = volume-down 13:23:30.954: bluetooth_acl_1dd8340a09_logicaldev_input condition ButtonPressed = volume-up 13:23:34.534: bluetooth_acl_1dd8340a09_logicaldev_input condition ButtonPressed = close It looks like according to hal this is acting as a media player instead of a presentation tool -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
