HOWTO: 5 button mouse working on firefox (back/forward buttons)

[hairywombat]

I'm running Gutsy and use a 5-button intellimouse with intellieye. I did what TearDownAllSigns did and that got Firefox forward and back working but not for Nautilus. What is interesting is before the modifications to Xorg.conf, XEV (run XEV at the terminal and click the buttons) was reporting that the side buttons were buttons 8 & 9. After the modifications they are 6 & 7.

[gbendotti]

This works for the Evoluent VerticalMouse 3

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 7 6"
EndSection

[vayhemar]

Worked for a Logitech MX310

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

[ericesque]

Veyhemar's stanza worked for my Logitech cordless Click! Plus

Still doesn't work in nautilus, but I can live with that. Fwd/Back in firefox is a must have.

[NineseveN]

My mouse is now working. I did a fresh install to Gutsy and edited my xorg.conf as below and it worked without a hitch in Firefox.

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

Not sure why my mouse buttons stopped working on Feisty, but as I go through setting it up to my liking if I happen to lose it again, I'm sure I'll be back.

Sweat!

This worked 100% in 7.10/Firefox with an IOGEAR Laser i600. I tried a few other methods and they didn't work (one somehow managed to disable my restricted ATI drivers). Thanks a million for this post (and the multitude of others here that have made this transition so painless). I just migrated from years of using XP. Though I never had any issues whatsoever with XP myself (due to extreme diligence and a lot of knowledge of services and OS optimization on my part), Ubuntu is still, IMHO, easily 10 times better. I haven't even scratched the surface with Ubuntu either...very cool indeed.

Of course, I bought a copy of XP retail but used a corporate version to bypass activation, so technically I was cheating.

[MrLooney]

My mouse is now working. I did a fresh install to Gutsy and edited my xorg.conf as below and it worked without a hitch in Firefox.

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

Not sure why my mouse buttons stopped working on Feisty, but as I go through setting it up to my liking if I happen to lose it again, I'm sure I'll be back.

I did this and every other install possible. I now have it working. with above config on a Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0 USB + PS2 compatible mouse.

I do not know if all the others work or not. I found out that if you do not restart not ctrl + alt + Backspace the changes do not take effect. I am running the latest Ubuntu 7.10..... Hope that helps a little.

[tdmoore]

Hobnob,

Newbie to Ubuntu and loving it...

However on your code above can you give me more detail on actual sudo commands?

Also, for some reason my right (what would be the forward button) gives me a menu including Back, Reload, Bookmark, Save Page As, Send Link etc. Left button does not work at all. Wheel works fine...

MS Intellimouse 1.1A USB (although using serial adapter to plug into computer).

Much appreciated in advance.

[TearDownAllSigns]

Haven't seen too much on it here, but if anyone is having mouse button issues with the Epiphany browser there is some bug info here:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337852

What I found worked for me was typing about:config in the address bar and editing the following values.

about:config

mousewheel.horizscrool.withnokey.action 2
mousewheel.horizscrool.withnokey.sysnumlines false

It will work right away so you should know quick if its going to work with your mouse.

I'm liking Epiphany so far, having had none of the memory and locking up issues that made me turn from Firefox. At least until FF3.

PS @ trmiv: The MX620 is pretty nice, I love the mouse scroll with the ball bearings.

[TearDownAllSigns]

Hobnob,

Newbie to Ubuntu and loving it...

However on your code above can you give me more detail on actual sudo commands?

Also, for some reason my right (what would be the forward button) gives me a menu including Back, Reload, Bookmark, Save Page As, Send Link etc. Left button does not work at all. Wheel works fine...

MS Intellimouse 1.1A USB (although using serial adapter to plug into computer).

Much appreciated in advance.

Welcome tdmoore,

I'm guessing you are just looking for the commands for backing up and then editing the xorg.conf file?

First back up your old one by creating a copy, the sudo password will be from your admin account which was setup in the installation:

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup

Then edit your xorg.conf using the gnone editor:

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

One I posted recently on this forum seems to work well for people on Gutsy and I have a old Intellimouse that I just plugged in and confirmed it works with it.

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

Save the file and close any apps, and do a ctrl-alt-backspace to restart X-Windows (this will not prompt you with a "are you sure?" so make sure you are ready). One you log back in you should (hopefully) have back and forward buttons working.

An important thing to note is that you only want to do changes to the mouse section of your xorg.conf at this time. Messing with the video section could lead to a nasty restart where the graphical end of you system will not load. Because of this I still have a sticky note with the following in case I boot from a nerfed xorg.conf.

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup /etc/X11/xorg.conf
ctrl-alt-backspace

That will overwrite the bad one with your backup and restart you.

Good luck in this, for some reason I had a harder time getting my mouse to work in Ubuntu than I did setting up a multiple desktop display with my TV and Monitor.

[tdmoore]

Thanks TDAS.

will give it a try...have not had any experience with the "option" portion of commands so will try to figure that out first.

Much appreciated.