Aspire 5920G (Linux)-Disabling media buttons

bebidek
bebidek Member Posts: 3 New User
edited March 2023 in 2014 Archives

Few days ago I've installed Xubuntu on my Acer Aspire 5920G notebook. I saw that blue media buttons (these on the right side of the keyboard) started to work as a mouse wheel. Using 'play/pause' with 'stop' I can scroll vertically, and using 'next' with 'prev' I can scroll horizontally. It's quite annoying, because I often use them accidentally. When I was using Windows, there wasn't any problem (buttons didn't worked).
Is there any method to disable them (like in Windows)?

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  • philetus
    philetus ACE Posts: 4,759 Pathfinder

    Try disabling media features in Programs and features/ turn windows features on and off.

  • bebidek
    bebidek Member Posts: 3 New User

    But I want to disable them on Linux. On Windows buttons are inactive defaultly (and luckily I can't switch them on).

  • philetus
    philetus ACE Posts: 4,759 Pathfinder
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    This should help you disably the keys:

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=842970

  • bebidek
    bebidek Member Posts: 3 New User

    Thanks, it works.

    These buttons occured as buttons 4-->7. I used (sudo xmodmap -e 'pointer = 1 2 3 0 0 0 0')

     

    EDIT:

    When I had done it, scroll wheel in mouse stopped working too. It's better to add to autostart command like (xinput set-button-map ID 1 2 3 0 0 0 0), where ID is touchpad device number found by (xinput) without arguments.

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