5-button mouse

**rafgar** · 09-05-2005

I have a M$ 5 button (4 button + scrollwheel) mouse. The two main buttons and the scroll wheel work fine, but the other two buttons (back and forward by default if I were in Winblows), do all kinds of wierd stuff, usually not the same thing twice in a row. I've read that some people are able to get all 5 buttons working on this kind of mouse, but so far the only instructions I've found were in an older post that refered to a file that doesn't exist on my system. I'm running Debian with the 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 kernel. How can I get the other two buttons on my mouse set up?

**dylunio** · 09-07-2005

You should look at your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, there is a section on your mouse there, it will look something like this:

Code:

Identifier   "Mouse1"
  Driver       "mouse"
  Option       "Buttons" "5"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
  Option       "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
  Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"
  Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

You need that to read:

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"

(i've highlighted the parts I've changed). Once you save and restart the X server, you should have all the buttons working

**LondoJowo** · 09-07-2005

I had to make the following changes in SuSE 9.3 to get my wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2.0 to work.

xorg.conf changes

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "mouse"
  Identifier   "Mouse&#91;1&#93;"
  Option       "ButtonNumber" "7"
  Option       "Buttons" "7"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
  Option       "InputFashion" "Mouse"
  Option       "Name" "USB-Mouse;ExplorerPS/2 on USB"
  Option       "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
  Option       "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection

mouse.sh in the /home/user/.kde/autostart folder.

mouse.sh

Code:

#!/bin/sh

# Required for the configuration of a 7-button mouse

xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"

**rafgar** · 09-09-2005

Originally Posted by dylunio

You should look at your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, there is a section on your mouse there, it will look something like this:

Code:

Identifier   "Mouse1"
  Driver       "mouse"
  Option       "Buttons" "5"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
  Option       "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
  Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"
  Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

You need that to read:

Code:

Identifier   "Mouse1"
  Driver       "mouse"
  Option       "Buttons" &#91;b&#93;"7"&#91;/b&#93;
  Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
  Option       "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
  Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"
  Option       "ZAxisMapping" &#91;b&#93;"6 7"&#91;/b&#93;

(i've highlighted the parts I've changed). Once you save and restart the X server, you should have all the buttons working ;)

This was pretty close, except I had to set the buttons to "4 5" instead of "6 7" Thanks!

**genesus** · 09-09-2005

This is an odd problem that I have noticed. I also have a seven button mouse (4buttons + scrollwheel) intellimouse. On some distros I have to set zaxismapping to 4 5, and on others 6 7. The same mouse...

But at least it always works.

**zz9pluralzalpha** · 10-05-2005

When I use "6 7" the scroll wheel turns performs the page forward/page back functions and the side buttons do the page down/up finctions respectively.

When I use "4 5" the wheel works as normal but the side buttons no longer work.

What do I do now

**dylunio** · 10-05-2005

Can you post the mouse part of the xorg.conf please?

**dbevfat** · 10-24-2005

Hi, I have exactly the same problem as zz9:

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"

With this config my side-buttons become scroll-buttons, and the wheel becomes back/forward (in browser). If I set ZAxisMapping to 4 5, I loose the side buttons. I must mention that I have a no-name mouse (Mercury anyone?), but it's not some cheap toy and it worked in Windows (if that is of any importance).

With ZAxisMapping set to "6 7", xev event tester tells me that side buttons are 4 and 5, while wheel events get registered as buttons 6 and 7. When ZAM="4 5", xev tells me that the wheel is 4 and 5, but the side buttons don't react.

Does anybody have any ideas?

Best regards

Edit: had to restart X to get additional info

**djluvsgod** · 01-27-2007

I tried editing my file as per your instruction, but what happened is that now my scroll button works horizontally instead of vertical, and the other two buttons still don't do anything. As I just discovered, the scroll is now back and forward in firefox. please help. I have xubuntu 6.10

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection

[edit] here is the original
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection
[/edit]

oz · 01-27-2007

Originally Posted by djluvsgod

I tried editing my file as per your instruction, but what happened is that now my scroll button works horizontally instead of vertical, and the other two buttons still don't do anything. As I just discovered, the scroll is now back and forward in firefox. please help. I have xubuntu 6.10

Sorry the above didn't work. You might have to try some different things to get the buttons working the way you want.

Here's a HowTo that might help:

http://easylinux.info/wiki/Ubuntu_Edgy#Mice

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