imwheel hide mouse buttons from compiz

[Andrey Sitnik]

Binary package hint: imwheel

When I start imwheel I can use Alt + Scroll to windows opacity in compiz (“Opacity, Brightness and Saturation” plugin). Also I can set mouse 8 and 9 buttons in Scale plugin.

When I start xev (with imwhell running) and press my mouse 8 or 9 button I get:

  LeaveNotify event, serial 35, synthetic NO, window 0x3e00001,
      root 0x1a7, subw 0x0, time 4648270, (72,50), root:(78,554),
      mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor, same_screen YES,
      focus YES, state 16

  EnterNotify event, serial 35, synthetic NO, window 0x3e00001,
      root 0x1a7, subw 0x0, time 4648272, (72,50), root:(78,554),
      mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor, same_screen YES,
      focus YES, state 16

  KeymapNotify event, serial 35, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
      keys: 4294967207 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
             0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Xev output when I didn’t start imwheel:

  ButtonPress event, serial 35, synthetic NO, window 0x3c00001,
      root 0x1a7, subw 0x0, time 4685392, (126,123), root:(132,627),
      state 0x10, button 8, same_screen YES

  ButtonRelease event, serial 35, synthetic NO, window 0x3c00001,
      root 0x1a7, subw 0x0, time 4685456, (126,123), root:(132,627),
      state 0x10, button 8, same_screen YES

My mouse: Logitech MX400. 8 and 9 buttons is a Back, Forward buttons by default.
System: Ubuntu 9.04 (also I have conflict in 8.10 and 8.04 too).

[Andrey Sitnik (iskin)]

I found temporal decision: don’t drab some mouse button from imwheel by -b options. For example, I use i compiz scroll (4, 5 buttons) and 9 button. So I start imwheel by: “imwheel -b "0 0 6 7 8 0"”.

[Michael (mkanz)]

I confirm this in Lucid. However, the trick from post #1 works :)

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

Hi. Does this still affect anyone on later versions?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for imwheel (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Eleni Maria Stea (hikiko)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. The compiz program that we currently use in Ubuntu is a C++ re-write of the original compiz and was announced the 4th July 2010. Therefore, the bugs that were reported before that date, will be marked as "Won't Fix" as they probably exist in the original program which is not stored in launchpad. (The last LTS that used the old compiz is the 10.04 which is not supported anymore).