Where can I find the full mouse button map?

Weapon S · 05-23-2015, 05:16 AM

For mapping the mouse buttons you use numbers to refer to the buttons and scroll-wheel. I haven't been able to find a complete and well maintained reference for the mapping though.
The most complete thing I found was:
http://wiki.mbirth.de/know-how/softw...e-buttons.html
The buttons 8, 9 seem to be mislabelled/insufficiently labelled, because they function as browser back and forward.
Is there any (quasi)official source I could reference?

ondoho · 05-23-2015, 07:06 AM

the wiki article you linked looks good enough to me.

do you really have a mouse with 9 or more buttons?

i guess you can assign anything you want to those seldomly used buttons.

where exactly is the problems?
show us what you got so far, what you want to achieve and where it fails!

i guess "man xinput" is a good enough place to start reading documentation.

Weapon S · 05-23-2015, 11:38 AM

I don't have a mouse with 9 buttons, but I could map any button to function like any of the defined buttons. The problem is, I have no idea which buttons are defined.
At the moment my setup seems to be working fine. It does assume the alleged ExtBt7 doesn't do anything, so that I can use it to solely trigger mouse wheel emulation. I think it is very sad I can't find any good free reference on this subject.

John VV · 05-23-2015, 10:47 PM

i had a old logitech with 11 buttons ( the wheel had 4-- middle ,left click middle and right click middle and scroll )
and a left and right button
and 5 on the side

for that i used BTNX
but they are no longer around

there is a import of the older code on git
https://github.com/cdobrich/btnx
and the config part
https://github.com/cdobrich/btnx-config

this did work on Gnome2
??? gnome3 ??? might not

ondoho · 05-24-2015, 02:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Weapon S

The problem is, I have no idea which buttons are defined.

you can use

Code:

xev

to find out.