Hi all,

I've been trying to get my MX 500's extra buttons to work under X. There's not an exceeding amount of information on the net, but I worked out a solution that *almost* works. Here's the relevant section of my XF86Config:

Also, at every X startup, the command
is run in order to enable the mouse wheel to work (apparently most programs expect buttons 4 and 5 to act as the mousewheel).

Now to the core of the problem - this would all be fine if it wasn't for the fact that (according to xev), the side buttons and mouse wheel movement generate two events each - the upper side button & mouse wheel up genereta ButtonPress 4 and ButtonPress 6 (and corresponding Release events), and the lower side button & mouse wheel down generate ButtonPress 5 and ButtonPress 7.

Before the xmodmap call is executed, every button generates a single event, but the scroll wheel doesn't work (in fact, in most programs I can scroll with the side buttons, but that's not exactly the point).

Any suggestions?

Anyone?