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cheekyp123

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Registered: 2020-12-30

Posts: 4

6 Button mouse config

Hi!
I have a sharkoon fireglider mouse that has total 6 buttons.
I would like to use the  forward/back buttons in the web browser (brave and FF) and maybe map them in games but when i press them it just types "q" or "e"
I have tried to follow https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Libinput and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mouse_buttons but It seems the information is outdated.

so far this is as far as ive got:
> egrep "Name|Handlers" /proc/bus/input/devices | egrep -B1 'Handlers.*mouse'
N: Name="A4TECH USB Device"
H: Handlers=event11 mouse0

after that i get to this: "Modify the ServerLayout section to use "Evdev Mouse" as the device. When you are done, it should look something like this:"
but the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf was empty when i started editing it so there is no such entry.

All the best guys and thanks in advance x

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 76,009

Re: 6 Button mouse config

The wiki is not a walkthrough.

a) you're likely not using evdev (that's the outdated part)
b) you'd likely want to use a configlet in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d - you're supposed to create them.
c) you quite possibly don't need any of this - just ensure all buttons are registered in "xev -event mouse" and fit your expectations

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