Configure mouse buttons

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 02:15:55PM -0300, Doritos wrote:
> How do I configure multiple mouse buttons?
> 
> I have a mouse with 5 buttons (3 normal +2 side buttons)
> 
> I want that the side buttons act as normal buttons 1 and 2.
> So I can use both face and side buttons to normal click and right click.
> 
> How can I do that?
> 
You use xmodmap, with a file in your home directory called .Xmodmap

My .Xmodmap swaps buttons 8 and 2 :-

    pointer = 1 8 3 4 5 6 7 2 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32

The program xmodmap also allows you to remap the keyboard.

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Chris Green