How to assign a function/action to a mouse button (Turbo Mouse)

[Eric Dunbar]

> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 09:18:24 -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> > Keywords: X11, X.org, configure mouse buttons, assign mouse buttons,
> > assign actions to mouse buttons, Kensington Turbo Mouse, multi button
> > mouse mice, five button mouse mice, imwheel, Intellimouse Intelli
> > Mouse.
> >
> > > On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 10:25:33PM -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> > >
> > > > So, my questions is, how do I get GNOME to assign functions to
> > > > particular mouse buttons? I have  no use for standard Linux 3rd & 4th
> > > > button functionality so I'd prefer to reassign them (to something like
> > > > ctrl pageup/down).
> 
> <https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/IntellimouseMousemanBackForwardButtons>
> 
> I used these wikis to get part of my Kensington Turbo Mouse Pro working.
> 
> I have the two bottom buttons as per usual (left & right clicks), the
> scroll-wheel click is the middle click and the two top buttons are now
> set up to ctrl-page up and ctrl-page-down in FireFox. The top row of
> six buttons still cannot be controlled (at least, I haven't figured
> out how to do so).
> 
> NOTE: You do not necessarily have to install imwheel to get the two
> top buttons to be useful! If you modify the xorg.conf (aka
> XF86Config-4) file to what I have here you STILL can use those buttons
> in FireFox -- they default to Back/Forward in the browser history!

Now that I think of it... imwheel should not be used in the Ubuntu
wiki to accomplish what it does since it seems some apps already have
defined functions for these mice. However, it should be mentioned in
case there are people (like me) who want to control what the
application does. Feel free anyone to update the wiki if desired... I
may get around to it too (though, I'm no expert on the subject).

Eric.