On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 08:39 -0500, Eric Paris wrote:

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:37 PM, jonsmirl@gmail.com [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Eric Paris [off-list ref] wrote:

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I just got a new Logitech MX5500 bluetooth keyboard mouse combo.  I
had no problem at all getting them recognized and connected using the
built in bluetooth on my Lenovo X200 laptop.  My problem is with the
middle mouse 'button.'  On all of my other mice clicking the scroll
wheel acted as a middle button.  On this new mouse it makes a noise
like a 'click' but it doesn't do anything.  I launched evtest and see
events for everything on the mouse (it has a thumb scroll whell, extra
buttons, all sorts of stuff) but it gives no event for 'click'ing the
scroll wheel. (I do see events for scrolling the scroll wheel)

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It has never worked as far as I know. The middle button on the mouse
reports as device 0 which the input layer is not expecting. I gave up
trying to get it to work.

This makes the back button near your thumb work as the middle button:
/usr/bin/xinput set-button-map "Logitech MX Revolution Mouse" 1 2 3 4 5 6 2 2

I have it in .bashrc but it really should be in a udev script. The
mouse occasionally disconnects/reconnect. In udev the command would
get automatically reapplied.

If I run your command by hand it works.  I created a udev rule to try
to auto-run the command and it does not work.

ATTR{address}=="00:1F:20:3A:C8:BD", ACTION=="add",
RUN+="/usr/bin/xinput set-button-map "Logitech MX Revolution Mouse" 1
2 3 4 5 6 2 2"

I know the udev rule is triggered, because when I replaced it with
/bin/touch /tmp/logitech the file was created in /tmp every time the
mouse turned on.  Now I'm trying to figure out why it doesn't work as
a udev rule.  Anyone thoughts?  If not, at least I have one way to get
it mostly working.  Thanks so much everyone!

I think working on the kernel's fried your brain Eric ;)

xinput needs an X display. udev doesn't know that display. You can
instead use Jon's script with this, if you use GNOME 3:
http://who-t.blogspot.com/2011/03/custom-input-device-configuration-in.html

More examples at:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/tree/plugins/common/input-device-example.sh

Cheers