DevSlash

Ok, so I have a mouse with extra buttons. And as you can guess I wanted to use them to go back and forward in a browser and such. Here is the configuration I have whipped up. At current I have a Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical. But I assume this will work with most mice.

First you will need to edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file.

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Default Mouse”
Driver “mouse”
Option “CorePointer”
Option “Protocol” “ExplorerPS/2″
Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option “Buttons” “7″
Option “ZAxisMapping” “6 7″
EndSection

Now you will need to edit your .imwheelrc file.

“.*”
None, Left, Alt_L|Left
None, Right, Alt_L|Right

You can edit this file to do whatever you would like the extra buttons to do. This configuration will make just about every program go back or forward. Which is what Alt and the left arrow would do. Next, you will need to run the following lines.

xmodmap -e “pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5″
imwheel -b 0067

You will need to run this basically every time you log in or you can put it in your startup files. I run gdm so I added the lines to my session file. This is actually a lot simpler to set up the I thought it would be.

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