Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-input-mouse package

Logitech USB wireless mouse - middle mouse button drag produces spurious ButtonPress/ButtonRelease events

Bug #309559 reported by Kevin Mehall on 2008-12-19

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xserver-xorg-input-mouse (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

When dragging with the middle mouse button in Ubuntu 8.10, using a Logitech Cordless USB mouse, ButtonPress and ButtonRelease events are generated throughout the drag. This causes problems in programs like Blender where the middle mouse button is used to rotate the 3D view. The rotation stops part-way.

lsusb entry:
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 046d:c510 Logitech, Inc. Cordless Mouse

Xev output attached. That log is for a single button press, drag, and release. It appears that button 2 works correctly, while the spurious events are on buttons 6 and 11.

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Kevin Mehall (kevin-mehall) wrote on 2008-12-19:

Xev output while dragging the middle mouse button Edit (14.0 KiB, text/plain)

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Kevin Mehall (kevin-mehall) wrote on 2008-12-26:

The ButtonPress events, it turns out, are actually the result of tilting the wheel side to side. I didn't know that the mouse even had this capability, as it was used previously under Windows, which didn't detect these extra buttons.

Still, Blender shouldn't stop the rotation when these buttons are pressed, since it is nearly impossible to click the middle mouse button without tilting it to the side a little.

A temporary fix is to run the command:
xinput set-button-map "Logitech USB Receiver" 1 2 3 4 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
(substitute the name of your mouse as shown in lshal)
This disables all extra buttons

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Michele Mangili (mangilimic) wrote on 2009-02-11:

Hello Kevin!

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better!

Unfortunately we cannot fix your problem without having more information. Could you pleas read the following page:https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingMouseDetection and attach to this bug report all the required logs?

Thanks in advance!

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote on 2009-03-24:

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.