Mouse features?

[Steve]

On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:27:32 +0100, Roy Smith <rasmith1959 at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
>> 08/07/2009 09:38 AM, Roy Smith:
>>
>>>> 	Please get a Logitech mouse. They do not say they work on Linux but
>>>> they all DO!
>>>>
>>> Well the basic functions of this mouse work just fine, the left and
>>> right buttons along with the scroll wheel do just as they're expected  
>>> to
>>> do.  It's just that there are 2 additional buttons that don't seem to
>>> work in all the programs that I use.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, each program has it's way to interpret mouse events.
>> all you will have to do is configuring, not writting "your
>> own program".
>>
>
> Ok, so if writing my own program isn't necessary, then please tell me
> how I can get Thunderbird to advance to the next unread message when I
> click the left side button of the mouse...and mark a thread as read when
> I click the right side button.  In the intellipoint software I could
> enable customizations for specific programs.  So what I did there was
> enabled it for TBird and set the left button to simulate pressing the
> 'n' key on the keyboard, and the right button to simulate pressing the
> 't' key.  I've been through the menus of Thunderbird many times and I
> still have yet to find a place where I can specify the keyboard
> shortcuts for the program, and that goes for both Linux or Windows
> versions...
>

Does this  
http://sillent.blogspot.com/2006/12/mouse-microsoft-intellimouse-explorer.html  
offer any inspiration?

-- 
Steve