mapping key to mouse-button?

[no.to...@gmail.com]

I want to be able to [like ETHOberon & linux:wily, which copied it], move the
mouse-pointer in the display, and press specific keys, to get corresponding
actions. How to 'capture' the word that the mouse is 'at' isn't obvious to me;
but the more trivial task of mapping a key to eg. left-mouse must first be done.

-> man xmodmap == ...
}client applications convert event keycodes into keysyms.
}Usually run from session startup script to configure the keyboard according
}to personal tastes.
}
}To reverse the button codes of a 3 button pointer:
-> xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1"
== Warning: Only changing the first 3 of 32 buttons <- Wow!! applies to All X

So that confirms remapping of the mouse-buttons.

Considering that the keys and mouse-buttons are listed together, suggests
that they can be handled together and 'cross-mapped' eg.

-> less /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h == ...
#define XK_Pointer_Button1 0xfee9
#define XK_Pause 0xff13 /* Pause, hold */
#define XK_Scroll_Lock 0xff14
#define XK_Sys_Req 0xff15
#define XK_Escape 0xff1b
#define XK_Delete 0xffff /* Delete, rubout */
....
#define XK_Pointer_Button1 0xfee9
#define XK_Pointer_Button2 0xfeea
#define XK_Pointer_Button3 0xfeeb
--------

From the man:
} Similarly, some keyboards have an Alt key but no Meta key. In that
} case the following may be useful:
} % xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L"
by direct substitution:-
-> xmodmap -e "XK_Scroll_Lock = XK_Pointer_Button1"
should <give mouse1 on Scroll_Lock>

Instead, I get:
xmodmap: unknown command on line commandline:1
xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting.

And tracing 'xmodmap' from `startx` finds all the alternate
xmodmap missing.

BTW the related `xev` is interesting, and also groups mouse
with keybrd, again suggesting that mapping between the 2
should be easy.

Perhaps this all depends on which WM is used? I prefer blackbox.
Apparently X is considered as being a mess by many authorities.

-> xmodmap -e "keysym XK_Scroll_Lock = XK_Pointer_Button1" ==
xmodmap: commandline:1: bad keysym target key symbol 'XK_Scroll_Lock'
xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting.

-> xmodmap -e "keysym XK_Delete = XK_Pointer_Button1" ==
xmodmap: commandline:1: bad keysym target key symbol 'XK_Delete'
xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting.

-> xmodmap -e "keysym XK_Scroll_Lock = keysym XK_Delete" ==
xmodmap: commandline:1: bad keysym target key symbol 'XK_Scroll_Lock'
xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting.

-> xmodmap -e "keysym XK_Scroll_Lock = keysym XK_Delete"
xmodmap: commandline:1: bad keysym target key symbol 'XK_Scroll_Lock'
xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting.

-> xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L" == OK: no error mesg
So it seems that keysym Alt_L and Meta_L Alt_L are 'known'
So, if I could find the 'table' perhaps I could see what/how to define stuff?

-> xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_L = XK_Pointer_Button1" ==
xmodmap: commandline:1: bad keysym name 'XK_Pointer_Button1' in keysym list
xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting.

Searching for "xmodmap", starting from`startx` -> xinit... FAILED.

How would you map a key to a mouse-button?

==TIA

[Bill Marcum]

On 01/05/2013 02:11 PM, no.to...@gmail.com wrote:
> I want to be able to [like ETHOberon & linux:wily, which copied it], move the
> mouse-pointer in the display, and press specific keys, to get corresponding
> actions. How to 'capture' the word that the mouse is 'at' isn't obvious to me;
> but the more trivial task of mapping a key to eg. left-mouse must first be done.
>

> From the man:
> } Similarly, some keyboards have an Alt key but no Meta key. In that
> } case the following may be useful:
> } % xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L"
> by direct substitution:-
> -> xmodmap -e "XK_Scroll_Lock = XK_Pointer_Button1"
> should <give mouse1 on Scroll_Lock>
>

> -> xmodmap -e "keysym XK_Scroll_Lock = XK_Pointer_Button1" ==
> xmodmap: commandline:1: bad keysym target key symbol 'XK_Scroll_Lock'
> xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting.
>

From the manpage:
The list of keysym names may be found in the header file
<X11/keysymdef.h> (without the XK_ prefix),