How to enable X third mouse button(scroll button) ?

My OS - Slackware 8.1
Mouse model - Maxxtro 800dpi, PS2

If you're using gnome :

Click 'start (gnome foot, red hat, your start button)
System Settings
Mouse
Select Wheel Mouse (PS2)
OK

Restart X

Slick.

Add this:

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

To the "Input Device" section of your XF86Config file.

pixelV I think your getting ahead of yourself. Wouldn't it be wise to first get X working before trying to get your third mouse button to work ?? Just my opinion at least. I'm not trying to be rude but it only makes sense to me.

I have more questions than answers

My favorite X ---> KDE
I always use KDE !

*blink*

No X?
*sigh*

Slick.

I think I got his X up and running in one of his other threads Slick.

is it just me or this whole thread makes no sense at all??? I mean... PixelV just wanted his scroll wheel to work... and he got more questions than answers.

Ok, First I would suggest you to read the link in mi signature. It's very interesting. Then... the 'third button' doesn't have the same function in Linux and Windows. In windows you use it mainly to scroll, in linux you use it to paste your selection... when you configured X it should have recognized this mouse. If it didn't then go to drakconf/hardwar/mouse and select the best decription for your mouse. then configure it from the control center/periferics/mouse and that should do it. If you want it to scroll I'm sure you'll need to use a mouse with a scroll wheel and it should be as easy to configure as anything else.

I see this forum has something behind that I didn't see... so I apologize if what I said in this post is senseless.

And he needs to realize that this is a free forum, members answer freely and he might not get the answers he wants or needs right away or at all. Also when fixing issues, he should take one on at a time, fixing one issue might resolve into fixing another and so on.

I whant to scroll web pages and documents with my old mouse,
but scroll button is broken : (
P.S. I understand you

Sorry, you keep talking about another problem, I know I'm missing something here... would you tell me, please, what is it?. Thanks.

PixelV. Use quotes, who do you understand? I hope it's tricky. Anyway, I use a two-button mouse so I don't know much about this... But i think that if you install the apropriate modules then all should work. I don't know with your mouse, but I'm using a Microsoft mouse (with a wheel) for windows and when I tried it on linux it gave me a few problems... Perhaps because bad drivers...

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If you have a 5 button mouse (2 buttons and a wheel) make sure the mouse section of your XF86Config is similar to this :


If you have a 7 button mouse (4 + the wheel) do something like this:
Then you will have to make sure your wheel is considered buttons 6 & 7. So just put this in your .xinitrc, or somewhere else that will get it executed when you start X

and how can i place a function on the buttons 6 & 7 ?

With imwheel, instructions are here.