Problem using 6th mouse button

[01mf02]

Hi! I have advanced with my FVWM config a lot, and now I also want to use my 6th mouse button (I got a new mouse for Christmas ).

Just for fun - my mouse looks like this:

\
 \
  |
  |
/-------\
| 1|4|3 | 
|  |2|  |
|  |5|  |
|-------|
|   6   |
\-------/

Now I got my 6th mouse button working in xev and wanted to try it in FVWM. My target was to move windows by holding the 6th mouse button and moving the mouse.

I tried it with:

Mouse 6 W A Move

but this was not my wanted behaviour. When I clicked on a window with the 6th button, the window kept moving until I pressed the first mouse button.

Then I found another post where somebody seemed to have found the solution for moving a window with ALT+Mouse: Mouse 1 W M FuncFvwmMoveOrRaiseOrShade

This code worked for me, so I modified it that it would use the 6th mouse button: Mouse 6 W A FuncFvwmMoveOrRaiseOrShade

But this just does nothing when I use the 6th button, there is just a message displayed on the console:

Warning: Got mouse button 6 when there was a maximum is 5. You can't bind complex functions to this button.

[thomasadam]

Hmm, you might want to look at xmodmap – particularly via the use of “pointer = …” – this is explained in one of the main FVWM FAQs.

– Thomas Adam

[01mf02]

But the FVWM FAQ on fvwm.org says:

Starting with Fvwm 2.4.0 Fvwm supports all five mouse buttons that X officially supports, and since 2.5.11, up to 9 buttons are supported by default.

I already use xmodmap on startup: + I Exec exec xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 4 5"

If I don’t use it, the mouse wheel gets crazy.

[thomasadam]

What about your xorg.conf file — have you made any changes to that?

– Thomas Adam

[01mf02]

Yep, I changed it to:

        Option      "Buttons" "6"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "5 6"

from

        Option      "Buttons" "4"  <----- I'm not sure about this
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

[Gramphos]

The cvs version (or a snapshot) has support for moving of windows ending with any button.

From the cvs manpage on Move:

The operation can be aborted with Escape or any mouse button not set to place the window. By default mouse button 2 is set to cancel the move operation. To change this you may use the Mouse command with special context ‘P’ for Placement (see Mouse command for details).

It’s not possible to achive what you want with a version prior to cvs after 2005-09-25.

[01mf02]

Could it be that you misunderstood me? Or have you tested this? Because I don’t want to set a special mouse button to cancel the move operation, I just want the move operation to end when no button is pressed anymore.

If you should be right, I’ll probably move my windows with ALT+Mouse - and when a new FVWM version is released, I’ll upgrade immediately.

EDIT: I’ve read the man page of the old version, and you seem to be right. When using the newest version, which syntax would I use? Is there an online version of this man page? Or could you post it here?

[Gramphos]

As far as I know there is no online version of the cvs manpage.

The relevant part of the manpage is

The special context ‘P’ controls what buttons that can be used
to place a window. When using this context no modifiers are
allowed ( Modifiers must be N), no window is allowed, and the
Function must be one of PlaceWindow, PlaceWindowDrag, PlaceWin-
dowInteractive, CancelPlacement, CancelPlacementDrag, Can-
celPlacementInteractive or -.

          PlaceWindow  makes  Button usable for window placement, both for
          interactive and drag move.  CancelPlacement  does  the  inverse.
          That  is  makes  Button  to cancel move for both interactive and
          drag move. It may however  not  override  how  new  windows  are
          resized  after  being  placed. This is controlled by the Emulate
          command. Also a window being dragged can  always  be  placed  by
          releasing the button hold while dragging, regardless of if it is
          set to PlaceWindow or not.

          PlaceWindowDrag and PlaceWindowInteractive/CancelPlacementDrag
          and  CancelPlacementInteractive work as PlaceWindow/CancelPlace-
          ment with the exception that they  only  affect  either  windows
          dragged / placed interactively.

          - is equivalent to CancelPlacement.

          The  following example makes all buttons but button 3 usable for
          interactive placement and makes drag moves started by other but-
          tons than one cancel if button 1 is pressed before finishing the
          move:

               Mouse 0 P N PlaceWindow
               Mouse 3 P N CancelPlacement
               Mouse 1 P N CancelPlacementDrag

However, just running the newer version should be ennough since it uses a default config which cancel placement with button two, unless dragging with button two, when button one cancel placements.