Programming extra mouse buttons

[ulrich steffens]

Am Dienstag, den 18.10.2005, 18:30 -0500 schrieb Jon Homan:
> ulrich steffens wrote:
> 
> >Am Dienstag, den 18.10.2005, 15:32 -0700 schrieb Adam Hamilton:
> >  
> >
> >>I have a logitech mouseman mouse with a thumb button
> >>I'd like to use as "browser back." How can I set it to
> >>do that? Anyone know?
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >hi,
> >take a look at this
> >
> >https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IntellimouseMousemanBackForwardButtons
> >
> >ulrich
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> I have been wanting to do that too, but I when I open up the config 
> file, its read-only. How do I get edit permission to that file?
> 
> Jon
> 
hi,
ubuntu uses 'sudo' (super user do) to let you do such tasks.
so, open a terminal and type
'sudo gedit' (without the quotes)
this will open a text-editor with root privilegs.
oh, and this will ask for a password. you enter YOUR password :)

to find out more on the subject of sudo just go to

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RootSudo

its worth a look!

good luck

ulrich