disable forward/back mouse buttons in firefox

**finer recliner** · July 14th, 2008

i have a logitech LX7 wireless USB mouse. the scroll wheel has the added feature of being tilt wheel. In hardy heron, the tilt wheel makes firefox(3.0) go back a page if you tilt the wheel left. this may be a nice feature for some users, but i find myself hitting the tilt wheel by accident more often than not which is very frustrating. I would like to change this setting to make the page scroll horizontally intead, or at least just disable it altogether.

can anyone provide some help?

**LowSky** · July 14th, 2008

you will need to edit your xorg.conf file

do me a favor and post the contents of the file and I'll help you fix it

in terminal type or paste the following command

Code:

sudo gedit etc/X11/xorg.conf

**jomiolto** · July 14th, 2008

One thing you can try is to type about:config in the Firefox address bar, click the "I'll be careful, I promise!" button and then locate the mousewheel.horizscroll.withaltkey.action setting and change its value to zero. You might need to restart the browser to make it effective. This fixes the problem at least on some mice.

**finer recliner** · July 15th, 2008

Originally Posted by jomiolto

One thing you can try is to type about:config in the Firefox address bar, click the "I'll be careful, I promise!" button and then locate the mousewheel.horizscroll.withaltkey.action setting and change its value to zero. You might need to restart the browser to make it effective. This fixes the problem at least on some mice.

tried this, but it didnt do anything. thanks for the suggestion though.

@lowsky: here my is my xorg.conf:

Code:

$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
	Driver		"kbd"
	Option		"XkbRules"	"xorg"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc105"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"CorePointer"
	Option 		"9"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Synaptics Touchpad"
	Driver		"synaptics"
	Option		"SendCoreEvents"	"true"
	Option		"Device"	"/dev/psaux"
	Option		"Protocol"	"auto-dev"
	Option		"HorizEdgeScroll"	"0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
	Driver		"fglrx"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
	Defaultdepth	24
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"Default Layout"
  screen "Default Screen"
	Inputdevice	"Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection
Section "Module"
	Load		"glx"
EndSection

**LowSky** · July 15th, 2008

ok I changed your mouse settings so that the left/right scroll should work at a schroll and not page change. log back into your xorg file and delete this part,

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"CorePointer"
	Option 		"9"
EndSection

replace with this

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"        "/dev/input/mice"
        Option          "Protocol"      "ExplorerPS/2"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
        Option          "XAxisMapping"  "6 7"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
        Option          "Buttons"       "7"
        Option          "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3"
EndSection

it should look like this when done

Code:

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
	Driver		"kbd"
	Option		"XkbRules"	"xorg"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc105"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"us"
EndSection


Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"        "/dev/input/mice"
        Option          "Protocol"      "ExplorerPS/2"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
        Option          "XAxisMapping"  "6 7"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
        Option          "Buttons"       "7"
        Option          "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3"
EndSection



Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Synaptics Touchpad"
	Driver		"synaptics"
	Option		"SendCoreEvents"	"true"
	Option		"Device"	"/dev/psaux"
	Option		"Protocol"	"auto-dev"
	Option		"HorizEdgeScroll"	"0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
	Driver		"fglrx"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
	Defaultdepth	24
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"Default Layout"
  screen "Default Screen"
	Inputdevice	"Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection
Section "Module"
	Load		"glx"
EndSection

then save and restart X by hitting Ctrl+Alt+Backspace

If It didn't work let me know

**finer recliner** · July 15th, 2008

i made the changes you suggested, and restarted the computer, but my mouse still has the same problem.

here is my current xorg.conf:

Code:

davef@laptop:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
	Driver		"kbd"
	Option		"XkbRules"	"xorg"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc105"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"        "/dev/input/mice"
        Option          "Protocol"      "ExplorerPS/2"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
        Option          "XAxisMapping"  "6 7"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
        Option          "Buttons"       "7"
        Option          "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Synaptics Touchpad"
	Driver		"synaptics"
	Option		"SendCoreEvents"	"true"
	Option		"Device"	"/dev/psaux"
	Option		"Protocol"	"auto-dev"
	Option		"HorizEdgeScroll"	"0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
	Driver		"fglrx"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
	Defaultdepth	24
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"Default Layout"
  screen "Default Screen"
	Inputdevice	"Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection
Section "Module"
	Load		"glx"
EndSection

if i run

Code:

imwheel -c

(which is used to figure which buttons on the mouse are which), it tells me that "Thumb 1 (Button 8)" is activated when i tilt the wheel left (go back a page in firefox) and "Thumb 2 (Button 9)" is for going forward a page.

**finer recliner** · July 17th, 2008

bump. anyone got another suggestion?

**grim4593** · July 17th, 2008

I had the same problem. I have a MX5 and its hard to middle click without hitting the horizontal scroll buttons. I ended up using btnx to do it and assigning the horizontal scrolling buttons as middle click. http://www.ollisalonen.com/btnx/

There is a thread about btnx here too: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=455656