Enable system-wide middle or right button mice scrolling

20. 8. 2019

https://askubuntu.com/questions/28150/chrome-chromium-middle-mouse-button-for-scroll-linux-mac

xinput list

returns

⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	
⎜   ↳ HP HP USB 1000dpi Laser Mouse         	id=9	
⎜   ↳ HP HP USB 1000dpi Laser Con. Control     id=10
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                   	id=3	
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard             	id=5	
    ↳ Power Button                            	id=6	
  ...

So it appears as if my mice is with id 9

xinput list-props 9
                             
Device 'HP HP USB 1000dpi Laser Mouse':
Device Enabled (147):	1
libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled (286):	0
libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled Default (287):	0
...

and

xinput set-prop 9 "libinput Scroll Method Enabled" 0, 0, 1
# This is button
xinput set-prop 9 "libinput Button Scrolling Button" 2
# This is middle mouse. Already 2 by default

This will not behave exactly like expected endless scrolling in browser, but close. Also this is valid system-wide.

Getting id’s for scripting purposes ↓

xinput | grep -i "mouse" | grep -iE "id=[0-9]{1,3}" 

⎜   ↳ HP HP USB 1000dpi Laser Mouse           	id=9	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ HP HP USB 1000dpi Laser Mouse Consumer Control	id=10	[slave  pointer  (2)]
    ↳ HP HP USB 1000dpi Laser Mouse Consumer Control	id=11	[slave  keyboard (3)]

xinput | grep -i "mouse" | grep -iEo "id=[0-9]{1,3}" 

id=9
id=10
id=11

xinput | grep -i "mouse" | grep -iEo "id=[0-9]{1,3}" | grep -iEo "[0-9{1,3}"
9
10
11

And test each id more precisely if it holds proper method

xinput list-props 9 | grep "libinput Scroll Method Enabled" && echo "ok"
libinput Scroll Method Enabled (289):	0, 0, 1
libinput Scroll Method Enabled Default (290):	0, 0, 0
ok

Interesting ‘case’ type of script
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?pid=10771#p10771

middleMice script ↓

edit: And the actual middleMice script.

How about the right button ↓

To use right-mouse button with openbox, disable this in rc.xml

<!-- <mousebind action="Press" button="A-Middle">
<action name="Lower"/>
<action name="FocusToBottom"/>
<action name="Unfocus"/>
</mousebind> -->

and change this

<mousebind action="Drag" button="A-Right">
    <action name="Resize"/>
</mousebind>

to this

<mousebind action="Drag" button="A-Middle">
    <action name="Resize"/>
</mousebind>

Now alt+middle click is window resize.

In middleMice script define button=3.

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