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Yesterday I promised I would also include instructions on how to setup IMWheel for support for 5 button mouse within Nautilus file manager. These instructions are a little more detailed and require a touch of customization. In my mind, if you’re brave enough to use an abomination mouse you can easily be brave enough to set this up. It shouldn’t take more than 5 minutes and when you’re done you’ll have all the comforts of your 5 button mouse with GNOME and Nautilus. Let’s get started!
- sudo aptitude install imwheel
- sudo gedit /etc/X11/imwheel/imwheelrc
- Add the following to the bottom of the existing file:
- Create an IMWheel startup script: sudo gedit /usr/bin/mouse
- Set this script as executable: sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/mouse
".*"
None, Up, Alt_L|Left
None, Down, Alt_L|Right
"(null)"
None, Up, Alt_L|Left
None, Down, Alt_L|Right
#!/bin/sh
exec xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5" &
exec imwheel -k -b "67" &
exec $REALSTARTUP
You can optionally set this script up to auto-start at login by adding it to “System > Prefences > Sessions > Startup Programs”. Click “Add” and enter /usr/bin/mouse. Select “OK”.
At this point test IMWheel by restarting GNOME (ctrl-alt-backspace) or restarting the computer. I would love to hear how this works for people as I don’t personally have a 5 button mouse to test this on. If I’ve missed anything please let me know.
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Much thanks for this little guide! I’m very new to ubuntu, so I had no idea how to get those buttons working.
Works excellent, I can now also use my extra mouse buttons in ET again. Yay!
I’m glad to hear it worked simply for you. That’s what we’re here for.. to save the world, one computer at a time.
Worked like a charm, but it resulted in having my thumb buttons switched with my scroll-wheel action.
So I changed my Xorg.conf (changed Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5″ to Option “ZAxisMapping” “6 7″) and added Option “ButtonMapping” “1 2 3 4 5″
This seemed to fix it…
Any chance for a 4 button mouse guide (like Logitech dualoptic)?
Didn’t work at all for me, but it didn’t crash X, so I guess not all bad. I would really love to get my scroll toggles to work in ET. I’m currently using:
Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (official)
Logitech G5 Gaming Laser mouse (wired)
I should clarify that nothing happened when I restarted X. Nothing good, or bad. No change. Any help would be fantastic. My email is:
eschatological.humor@gmail.com
(copy/paste it if you have to, hehe)
Thanks in advance!
Didn’t really work for me. I made the script alright, but it basically gave me this retarded mouse configuration where my mousewheel was my forward and back browsing buttons. =(
Upgraded to 8.04 Hardy Heron (with Firefox 3B).
Broke my back & forward buttons.
Had to switch buttonmapping from “1 2 3 6 7 8 9″ to “1 2 3 8 9 6 7″.
Wish I knew what it all meant!
i’ve installed ubuntu 8.04 few days ago .im very new to linux. i did all the steps above and now scrolling is not working anymore(nautilus and firefox). and all other buttons did not work either (back and forward still working with firefox). i have a Logitech MX Laser Mouse. i would really appreciate it, if somebody could help me to get my mouse work. thanks a lot
I followed this tutorial, but when I went to test it, scrolling was not working. So I commented the /usr/bin/mouse commands in the file and the wheel now works again.
Anyone know a simple way to get Nautilus (File Browser) to work with buttons 6 and 7 as a back and forward though the folders? (like in Firefox)
Thanks
What do the various fields in imwheelrc actually represent?
And how do you represent more complicated actions than Alt_L? For example pasting from the clipboard.