imwheel destroys back / forth navigation buttons from my mouse

Question

I installed imwheel correctly with sudo apt-get install imwheel. Afterwards I did insert this:

".*"
None,       Up,     Up,     10
None,       Down,   Down,   10

in my ~/.imwheelrc file. The scrolling works perfectly now. However the back / forth navigation buttons from my mouse(Logitecg G700) don't work anymore.

If I kill the process with killall imwheel, the buttons work.

Do you have any suggestions / ideas how to fix this? I'd like to use imwheel.

Solution 1

You can restrict imwheel to only affect the scroll wheel with the -b option. See man imwheel for more information. Hence, run it with

imwheel -b 45

Some versions of imwheel (e.g. on Ubuntu 14.04) require a different syntax. If the output of imwheel --version is imwheel 1.0.0pre12 by -=<Long Island Man>=- <[email protected]>, then use the following syntax:

imwheel -b "4 5"

Solution 2

I noticed everytime kill or buttons or -c is launched, there is a competing instance already running, try single line kill and button:

sudo imwheel --kill ---buttons "4 5"

or

sudo imwheel -k -b "4 5"

Comments

[Waldemar Wosiński]

-b, --buttons button-spec The button-spec must be surrounded by quotes. Each button number must be separated by a space.

[Sparhawk]

@WaldemarWosiński What is the output of imwheel --version?

[Waldemar Wosiński]

imwheel 1.0.0pre12 by -=<Long Island Man>=- <[email protected]> IMHO this is better, becouse what if your mouse has many buttons with id more than 9 ;)

[Sparhawk]

@WaldemarWosiński Good point, although in my man, it specifically says it only supports up to id 9. This is the relevant section of my man page. It even has examples without the quotes and spaces. It's very odd that they differ. Actually, the version of mine has the same number but is slightly different imwheel 1.0.0pre12 by -=<Long Island Man>=- <[email protected]>. I'm not sure if that's relevant.

[Rotsiser Mho]

So the actual command is imwheel -b "4 5" for the lazy.

[Anwar]

Actually, imwheel version imwheel 1.0.0pre12 requires to be -b "45"

[Jamie Hutber]

Brilliant idea to kill the current process