Logitech MX310 and Ubuntu

I spent some time setting up my Logitech MX310 mouse to work with Ubuntu and Beryl. The Beryl Settings Manager provides an amazing amount of customization IF you can find what you are looking for. Beryl is making a lot of progress in the interface, but it’s a very complicated mechanism they’ve built and there really isn’t any way to simplify it. So you simply have to get your hands dirty. However, I am hoping this post can help you out. With a little help, your MX310 will be invoking Beryl’s Window Picker (a lot like Expose in OSX) with the click of a button.

First, you have to know which button is which. My little drawing on the right illustrates how my system sees the MX310 buttons. This may be different for you depending on your X configuration. I can’t recall customizing my setup, so I’m hoping I have a default configuration. Note that the very top button and the scroll-wheel-click register as the same button. 🙁

Second, you have to go to the Beryl Settings Manager. I would start with disabling a few default settings that simply have no purpose and only create confusion when they are accidently invoked: Window Opacity and Window Saturation. It’s cool what Beryl can do with these features to create feedback, but being able to see the window below my active window via transparency is perfectly worthless. Let’s get started:

1. Open Beryl Settings Manager

2. Go to:
   General Options/ Shortcuts/ Keyboard and Mouse/ General Options/ Bindings.

   Increase Opacity	Disable
   Decrease Opacity	Disable
   Increase Saturation	Disable
   Decrease Saturation	Disable
   Hide All Windows And Focus Desktop	<Control>Button2

3. Go to:
   General Options/ Shortcuts/ Keyboard and Mouse/ Scale/ Bindings.

   Initiate Window Picker for All Workspaces

   Button2

4. Congratulations You’re Set!

Let me know if this was helpful or if you have discovered a different configuration.