Okay, this is workaroundable without any kernel changes, but it's not 100% pretty (I'm only reporting in a "this is how it works for me"). Somebody dropped some info on the mousekeys feature on this or the another remapping thread, so this is the feature we're going to abuse. I wanted shoulders (L&R) as mouse buttons, so adjust accordingly. .pndXmodmap needs these lines (for mapping L = left mouse click, R = right mouse click, adjust keycodes if you want to use other keys, look up the keycode with eg. xev):
Code:
keycode 62 = Pointer_Button1 NoSymbol Pointer_Button1
keycode 105 = Pointer_Button3 NoSymbol Pointer_Button3
It'd be nice if you insert these to the appropriate numerical positions (or modify already existing lines with those keycode numbers, if you already have them mapped to something).
And note that these wont work out of the box, they're used only if the mousekeys feature is enabled (normally used for normal keyboard numpad = mouse). After "applying" the changes to the .pndXmodmap (reboot or logout+login might work...), you can fast test your mapping by opening the XFCE Accessibility settings and enabling mouse keys. There is still a little problem as in by default there is a timeout after which the feature (if unused) will be disabled, and the default enable trigger is something related to NumLock (i dont recall exactly). Since the pandora has no numlock key, and we dont want to waste a key, we need a way to disable the timeout. If it timeouts you can "workaround" by going to the Accessibility settings and flipping the checkbox on->off->on, but there exists a little utility called xkbset that can disable the timeout, but it isnt in Ångström repos (quite forgotten tool...). With all the stuff I had installed on my SD card system compiling it was a single call to make, so the compiled binary is http://urjaman.dyndns.info/xkbset <- there, it doesnt seem to need any special libraries, so I would guess it works on a standard OS.
Drop that to /usr/bin and make it executable. Then write a script like this (name and location is upto you):
Code:
#!/bin/sh
xkbset m
xkbset exp =m
Then add that script to the XFCE autostarted stuff (Session and Startup->Application Autostart), and you should have always enabled mousekeys feature.
EDIT:
Alternative instructions (for gaming buttons instead of shoulders) and xkbset download URI by zx-81 http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?/topic/54073-the-one-nub-club/page__view__findpost__p__905644 <- in that post.
