Hey, I've just upgraded from Fedora Core 6 to Fedora 8. This has upgraded my X.org from I think 6.9 to 7.1.

On my old system the thumbbutton worked like middle-click so that I could use it to open new tabs. Now it works like a normal left-click button, or if I follow guides on the web, as a "go back" button.

Xev calls this button "8". Is there a way to make this "2" which I believe is the middle click?

This leads me to the other problem, which might actually be a firefox problem. On my old system - with firefox 1.5 - pressing middle click (wheel click) on a page brought up a nice arrow image, which let me scroll up and down be moving the mouse. Now I just get a "Url could not be parsed" error messages, as it seams to interpretate the button as a paste button.

Is this because firefox has been changed, or is it because my old system could identify the middle button as a wheel button?

I applied this guide successfully to VectorLinux to get my own Logitech LX7 extra mousebuttons working.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...light=logitech

I fixed most of this using firefox's about:config

I set:
middlemouse.contentLoadURL: false
middlemouse.paste: false
general.autoScroll: true

I still have problems with the thumbkeys though.
They currently does nothing.
xev tells me they are called "button 8". I'd like them to be "button 2" together with the wheel..

Use Option ButtonMapping in the xorg.conf file section Input device for the mouse. The syntax is physical buttons map to logical buttons.
E.g.,:
will leave buttons 1 and 2 alone(you want this so only change if you are a lefty), map physical button three to generate button four events, map button physical four to generate button five events, and map physical button five to generate button three events.
## be sure to have a space between the numbers so X can parse it properly.

There is some documentation on this which you can find via google. It should be in
man 4x mouse
but this is a fairly new option in X so maybe yes or maybe no.
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re:http://lists.freedesktop.org/archive...ay/015330.html

The end result is that it made my mouse side buttons functional. I played -briefly- and found that moving the numbers around *does* change the events(but cannot say to what degree that will help you).

MY side buttons were 8 & 9 acc2 xev and did nothing of value before using
After restart X they worked as forw|back(firefox) and left|right(konqueror window pane) and xev reports them as buttons 6 & 7.
RE: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Mousebuttons and the "Belkin" mouse. ... YMMV.

hth...