Mapping Mouse Buttons ??

Neumonic_Splice · 02-15-2003, 06:47 PM

I have a Microsoft Trackball Optical USB 7-button mouse. I read in another thread on this site that to use the buttons you have to map the wheel to be buttons 6 and 7. I did that, and the wheel works fine still. However, how to I map the 4 and 5 buttons (forward and back buttons)? Will I have to update several config files for each app that I want to have these buttons mapped for?

canon · 02-22-2003, 05:56 AM

i've heard of people mapping the mouse button input to a keyboard instance of Alt+Left and Alt+Right for forward and back navigation, and am looking for information on how to do that myself... i'll be watching this post too!

rdoucet · 01-21-2004, 09:05 AM

Hi!

I am currently trying all kind of things, but the closest I came to get it to work was that the side buttons were going "Page up" and "Page down".

Following another thread.

If someone has any idea, please post it here!!

Thanks

Richard

hellblade · 01-26-2004, 12:55 PM

This is an old thread but today I found a solution that works fine for me.

After you have configured your mouse (all buttons working) through XF86config file, download and install a program called imwheel.
Create a text file in your home and name it .imwheelrc containing the following:

Code:

"(null)"
None, Left, Alt_L|Left
None, Right, Alt_L|Right

".*"
None, Left, Alt_L|Left
None, Right, Alt_L|Right

* In this forum another thread suggested:

Code:

".*"
None, Up, Alt_L|Left
None, Down, Alt_L|Right

but it didn't worked for me. You may try that instead of mine.

Then create a text file in your home and name it .Xsession containing the following:

Code:

/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
/usr/bin/imwheel -p -b "67"
/usr/bin/x-session-manager

to make changes work automatically when you start your window manager.

* If your buttons don't work you might have to change "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5" to something else.

hellblade · 01-27-2004, 06:57 PM

This may not work for everyone so another solution is to create a file named lets say .mouse_buttons in your home. It must contain:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

imwheel -p -b "67" &
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"

Then open a console and while you are in your home run chmod +x .mouse_buttons. Go in ~/.kde/Autostart and create a new Link to application... and name it lets say mouse_buttons.desktop. Then right click and select Properties. In the Application tab -> Command: bash "~/.mouse_buttons" and click on OK.

Every time you log into KDE this script will be executed.