Comments on: Support for 5-button mouse in Firefox : Ubuntu (6.06.1 / 6.10)

By: Cal

Cal — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:47:16 +0000

xorg.conf reports that it no longer contains configuration data for input devices, as the server is configured automatically (read: badly).

Sad end to an easy fix. You do realize that you’re an ‘abomination enabler’, though? :p

Peace.

By: Kenny

Kenny — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:43:05 +0000

From http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Mouse+buttons+do+not+work+as+Back+and+Forward

“In Firefox 3 on Linux, the mouse button assignments for Back and Forward have changed, to follow X11 customs. Previous versions of Firefox used buttons 6 and 7 for Back and Forward, respectively. Firefox 3 uses buttons 8 and 9.”

So the important thing to change is ButtonMapping from “1 2 3 6 7″ to:
Option “ButtonMapping” “1 2 3 8 9″

By: Anotherhero

Anotherhero — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:53:30 +0000

Stuff changed for me since I upgraded to Ubuntu Hardy

Identifier “Mouse0″
Driver “mouse”
Option “Protocol” “auto”
Option “Device” “/dev/psaux”
Option “Emulate3Buttons” “no”
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5 6 7″
Option “Buttons” “9″
Option “ButtonMapping” “1 2 3 8 9″

Did the trick for me

By: Nik Saribird

Nik Saribird — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:32:49 +0000

Thanks!!! Great tutorial!!! Really helped!

By: Jamie Sawyer

Jamie Sawyer — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:10:16 +0000

Worked nicely, fixed the issue I made following another guide Thanks man!

Jamie

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By: erwinrm

erwinrm — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:10:16 +0000

Thanks, this works great for my MS IntelliMouse Explorer 3. The steps are just slightly different than what I had to do before for SUSE.

By: Arseniy

Arseniy — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:32:55 +0000

Help please!
I tried to modify xorg.conf several times but with the same result – nothing changes. I have A4 X7-750F 5 button mouse and my xorg currently looks like:

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Layout0″
Screen 0 “Screen0″
InputDevice “Keyboard0″ “CoreKeyboard”
InputDevice “Mouse0″ “CorePointer”
EndSection

…

Section “InputDevice”
# generated from default
Identifier “Mouse0″
Driver “mouse”
Option “Protocol” “auto”
Option “Device” “/dev/psaux”
Option “Emulate3Buttons” “no”
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5″
Option “Buttons” “7″
Option “ButtonMapping” “1 2 3 6 7″
EndSection

On Ubuntu 6.10, GNOME 2.16.1

Thanks in advance

By: Psychiccyberfreak

Psychiccyberfreak — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 20:08:46 +0000

@aaron:
try inserting this:

Option “ZAxisMapping” “6 7″
Option “ButtonMapping” “1 2 3 5 6″

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:44:38 +0000

I used this instruction on my 6.10 install and I have the wheel and side buttons reversed, meaning the side buttons scroll pages and the wheel traverses the browser. I have the MX510, I also used the IMWheel startup script. Is this the typical setup? In my mind it should be reversed. Any suggestions?