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5 button mouse with XFree86 4
You have to map your side buttons to the wheel buttons since X can't see more than 5 buttons and counts the wheel up and down as buttons.
I use this in my XF86Config-4:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Bouncy mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
Option "Buttons" "7"
EndSectionThen I map the buttons 6 7 back to 4 and 5 in my ~/.xsession so the wheel works
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
And I run imwheel so that the side buttons actually do something and map them to do things like this in my .imwheelrc:
"^xmms" None, Left, Z None, Right, B
You can try and debug it should it not just work for you with xmodmap -pp and xev
I used the following to get backwards and forwards in galeon:
"^galeon" None, Left, Alt_L|Left None, Right, Alt_L|Right
Look in /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h to find out all the keys you can use (remove the XK_ from the start) and use | to combine keys. For instance for emacs you might use: None, Down, Control_L|Meta_L|Shift_L|parenright