howto map mouse button to keyboard key

lopette · 09-16-2004, 10:28 AM

hey all

I'd like to map my 4th mouse button (thumb button) to my keyboard "alt" key. with KDE, this would allow me to move/resize windows only with the mouse and without having to use the window's edge or title bar (great when they're hidden), but I don't know how to achieve that.

I've checked on the XFree86 site, on KDE.org, and googled a few words but I haven't found anything..

icom158 · 09-16-2004, 11:41 AM

one way of doing it involves installing imwheel to intercept mouse commands and send a keyboard event.

imwheel.sourceforge.net

lopette · 09-16-2004, 03:18 PM

oh thank you I was fearing no-one had thought of this before

but... how do you configure this? I've only found info on how to get the wheel working - and mine has worked fine since the start of times, and I haven't been able to start that configuration helper that shows in the screenshot.

could you give me a few more details please ? thanx a lot