Mouse features?

[Roy Smith]

Steve wrote:
> 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?
>   

Aha!!!  Now that looks promising, just wish I knew whatever language
that was in (Spanish maybe?) so I could understand exactly what was
written.  So now let's see how badly I can screw up my /etc/xorg.conf
file.  ;-)

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