HOW TO: Enable Intellimouse Support in Nautilus and Firefox

[CocoAUS]

From Ubuntu How-To (thad hopkins):

Note: This works for a Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0A mouse, and may or may not work for other similar 7-button mice. I don't really know how this works; it's the result of hours of mucking around with stuff. As always, backup your files before editing.

The following will configure the IntelliMouse to work with Gnome, Nautilus, Firefox, Epiphany, etc, with full support for the back and forward side buttons and scrolling with the wheel.

Install imwheel

sudo aptitude install imwheel

Edit xorg.conf:

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Replace the mouse section with the following:

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

Create .imwheelrc:

sudo gedit .imwheelrc

Paste in the following:

".*"
None, Up, Alt_L|Left
None, Down, Alt_L|Right

"(null)"
None, Up, Alt_L|Left
None, Down, Alt_L|Right

Make imwheel start with X by editing the startup file:

sudo gedit /etc/X11/imwheel/startup.conf

Find this line and change the 0 to a 1:

IMWHEEL_START=0

Add one final file"

sudo gedit /etc/X11/Xsession.d/63xmodmap

Paste in this code:

killall imwheel
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 6 7"
BINARY=$(which imwheel)
$BINARY -k -p -b "6 7"

Make the file executable by all:

sudo chmod 777 /etc/X11/Xsession.d/63xmodmap

Restart X (CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE), and you're done!

[Crushyerbones]

Quick note: If doing this on Feisty, don't accidentally let ubuntu "reformat" xorg.conf automatically. Mine did and it took me a while to figure out what was wrong.

[tblehr]

Thank you, this worked perfect for my Razor Copperhead mouse as well!

[sloggerkhan]

might have to check this out later. I have a copperhead as well, never configured it for the side buttons on linux.

[Oby]

This actually works Thank you!

[sethd32]

worked perfectly on feisty 7.04 and an IntelliMouse Explorere 2.0!

Thx

[C_B-A]

Also worked for me!
With Intellimouse Explorer 2.0A USB.
Thanks for the howto

[lefthand]

Make sure that .imwheelrc is created in you home folder. My terminal was in a different folder so it was created elsewhere. The back button won't work in nautilus otherwise

[Kreat]

This worked perfectly! This was the first tutorial to tell you exactly what to do for all the steps. Thanks I appreciate it!

[Crashmaxx]

Good to see this still works. I was using another method for a while but it only worked with firefox. Great to have nautilus work again.

But I can't believe there is still no good auto-detect and gui for this. Does the bullet-proof-x and gui-xorg-config in Gusty have mouse buttons?