```
== Revoco
== MX revolution control for Linux
``` 


About
-----

A command-line tool to setup the Logitech MX Revolution mouse
buttons behavior under Linux

Install
-------

```
$ make
$ ./revoco
Revoco v0.6 - Change the wheel behaviour of Logitech's MX-Revolution mouse.

Usage:
  revoco free                      free spinning mode
  revoco click                     click-to-click mode
  revoco manual[=button[,button]]  manual mode change via button
  revoco auto[=speed[,speed]]      automatic mode change (up, down)
  revoco battery                   query battery status
  revoco mode                      query scroll wheel mode
  revoco reconnect                 initiate reconnection

Prefixing the mode with 'temp-' (i.e. temp-free) switches the mode
temporarily, otherwise it becomes the default mode after power up.

Button numbers:
  0 previously set button   7 wheel left tilt
  3 middle (wheel button)   8 wheel right tilt
  4 rear thumb button       9 thumb wheel forward
  5 front thumb button     11 thumb wheel backward
  6 find button            13 thumb wheel pressed
```
References
----------

Note: this is copy/paste http://blogs.gentoo.org/betelgeuse/2006/11/26/getting_mx_revolution_setup_in_gentoo/

```
== Getting MX Revolution setup in Gentoo
== Posted on November 26, 2006 by betelgeuse
```

I recently bought a Logitech MX Revolution mouse. This is a very nice cordless
laser mouse with plenty of buttons. See Gizmodo review for pictures. As usual I
first googled to find what others have done to get everything working with this
mouse. Of course the usual functionality was there without anything special.

The first link Google gave me was
http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2006/09/27/logitech-mx-revolution-in-linux/ Based
on this information I set out to setup my new mouse. First I changed my
xorg.conf to have the following:

```
Section "InputDevice"
		Identifier  "Mx Rev"
		Driver      "evdev"
		Option      "Protocol"  "Auto"
		Option      "Name"      "Logitech USB Receiver"
		Option      "Phys"      "usb-*/input0
EndSection
```

This gives evdev control of my mouse and still keeps my other stuff working
using the normal /dev/mice/input. This at least makes it possible to control
this mouse specifically if I need to. The hotplug input framework should
hopefully make this kind of stuff obsolete in the future.

Having evdev working and handling the mouse I got xev to recognize all my mouse
buttons nicely. I have been using imwheel with my previous mouses and have
found it an able tool to map mouse events to keyboard events. Here is my
`.imwheelrc`:

```
"Firefox"
None, Thumb1, Alt_L|Left
None, Thumb2, Alt_L|Right
None, Left, Control_L|W
None, Right, Control_L|T

"Thunderbird"
None, Thumb1, N
None, Thumb2, B

"Konsole"
None, Thumb1, Shift_L|Right
None, Thumb2, Shift_L|Left
```

What this does:

- Makes back/forward work in Firefox with Thumb buttons
- Makes creating/deleting tabs work by tilting the scroll wheel
- Makes Thunderbird go to next unread message / previous message using Thumb buttons
- Makes Konsole change tabs using Thumb buttons

Using the same pattern you should be able to adjust the rest of the buttons to
your liking. I will probably look into using the Thumb wheel to control beryl.

The last thing I didn’t like about the default behavior of the MX in Linux was
the scroll wheel. By default it is in the Free-spin mode which means that
clicking the wheel does not generate Button2 events. I found a handy tool to
control the features of this mouse in the comments of that blog post and I made
an ebuild for it
http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/dev/betelgeuse/app-misc/revoco/. Using this tool
I can just issue revoco manual=6 and after that I can use the One-Touch Search
button to change the scrolling mode of the mouse. I don’t know yet if this is
good enough for the main tree as it atm must be run setuid because of default
/dev/usb/hiddevN permissions. Will probably add it if I find the time to
rewrite it using libhid.

The final touch to glue all this together is to have my .xprofile start the necessary programs for me:

```
revoco manual=6
#xmodmap -e "keycode 122 = XF86Search"
/usr/bin/imwheel -k -b "007689"
```

Notice that you can use xmodmap to map the One-Touch search to XF86Search if
you like. It’s quite weird how the button is handled. To the OS it is shown as
a keyboard with one button. Well engineers are creative.

# EOF