5 Button Mouse - Printable Version

5 Button Mouse - Printable Version

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5 Button Mouse - conundrum - 2008-02-01

So things are going pretty well for me, but one thing that is annoying me is that I have a 7 button mouse and only seem to be able to use 3 of the buttons (right and left click and scroll wheel). I am not sure how I go about setting commands to the other buttons, but a forward and back for web browsing, and a hot-key for the bash would both be very helpful.

Thanks in advance.

5 Button Mouse - anyweb - 2008-02-01

hi what brand/model mouse is it ? and what distro are you using (and version) ?

cheers

anyweb

5 Button Mouse - znx - 2008-02-02

A combination of xorg.conf alterations:

Code:
Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "MSIntelliPointOptical"

Driver "mouse"

Option "CorePointer"

Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"

Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"

Option "Buttons" "5"

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7"

EndSection

And xmodmap / imwheel got my buttons working (these entries are in your startup session):

Code:
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 6 7 10 11"

imwheel -k -b 89

Unfortunately I have used another mouse and found it didn't work with this setup. I think basically you need an individual setup for a mouse.

If you do:

Code:
$ xev

Then click the buttons, if that responds with output in the terminal, the buttons are working, which means its just a matter of tweaking with imwheel.