5 button mouse?

Pigeon · Guru Joined: 21 Jun 2002 Posts: 307

Anyone know how to get buttons 4 and 5 working on a MS intellimouse? Even if I could bind them to a keyboard button it would be nice. From what I understand, xfree doesn't support 5 button mice but there's a way to hack around it.

I have the mousewheel, the left, right and middle buttons working, but buttons 4 and 5 give me the same function and middle clicking and right clicking.

I tried googling for "5 button mouse" and stuff like that and got a bunch of stuff like "Section 5: Configuring a 3 button mouse." Quite infuryating. :evil:

Dolio · l33t Joined: 17 Jun 2002 Posts: 650

I have a 5 button wheelmouse myself, and I've been wondering this same thing for a while. So I went googleing (searched for explorerps, in case you were wondering

), and found this (German, I think) howto: poor Google translation which seems to have a link to a program that can redefine mouse keys to be any x recognized keyboard key.

I'll have to try this out myself (although I probalby won't be able to get the back/forward in web browser stuff working like it did in windows (sigh)).
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Gulliver · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 12:12 pm Post subject:

I've searched for that soooo long!
Thanks!!!
To get the side-buttons of the Intelli Explorer working as navigation-buttons you need to configure shorcuts on F11 for back and F12 for forward. Than you can use the following mapping-comand to get it working:

chr1z · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 207

and how do u configure shorcuts on F11 for back and F12 for forward ?

Gulliver · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 2:30 pm Post subject:

In KDE3.1aplha (I think it should be the same in 3.0):
Open Konqueror. Then goto Settings -> Configure Shortcuts. Choose Backward / Forward in the List and set F11 / F12 as alternative shortcut!
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Pigeon · Guru Joined: 21 Jun 2002 Posts: 307

Well, it sort of works. The XF86Config part worked, but mousemap isn't working right. It spits out this:

jackD · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 17

I haven't tried using mousemap, but I did get the back and forward side buttons on my intellimouse Explorer working with imwheel.

Jack

simcop2387 · Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 12:19 am Post subject:

ok i'm having a bit of trouble i think i'm doing it in the XF86Config way, how might i tell if the other buttons are working i'm not sure they are, but i could be wrong.

nesJa · n00b Joined: 19 Jul 2002 Posts: 8 Location: Jamaica

Try adding this your .xinitrc file and see if it works. I'm not sure it will, just making a guess.

simcop2387 · Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 1:21 am Post subject:

well when i do that it completely gets rid of the mouse wheel, it seems my mouse may be a little different i dunno

EDIT:
ok i changed the protocol back to IMPS/2 from the ExplorerPS/2 that that one guide also suggested, that makes the scroll work with that xmodmap, however my 2 extra buttons work as they did before. hmm

Wedge_ · Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 8:38 am Post subject:

I haven't tried binding them to keys yet, but I got the two extra buttons to work fine. Change your XF86Config to something like:

simcop2387 · Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 8:36 pm Post subject:

thanks alot, working great now!

this might be a good thing to add to a faq somewhere, guess i'll have to book mark it and maybe get around to it later.

Ard Righ · Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 5:59 am Post subject:

"buttons" "7" in XFree ? What version of XFree are you running Wedge_ ? 4.2.x ?

Wedge_ · Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 8:37 am Post subject:

Yeah, 4.2.0