View source for Making side mouse buttons work for nav (back/forward) in Xorg

[[Category:Unix]]
I had a hell of a good time trying to get my old '''Intellimouse Explorer''' to have its side buttons and wheel work properly in xorg (6.9). Much of this was found here:

* http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Mouse_Nav_Buttons

These are what ended up working:

''xorg.conf'':
 Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier  "Configured Mouse"
   Driver      "mouse"
   Option "Protocol"       "ExplorerPS/2"
   Option "Device"         "/dev/input/mice"
   Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
   Option "Buttons"        "9"
   Option "ZAxisMapping"   "4 5"
 EndSection


And this command executed at startup of xorg:

 xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 8 9 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 13"


If one needs to debug, run '''xev''' ('''xev | grep button''') and look at the console output to see what button clicks. You can re-run xmodmap commands above and shift things around to play w/ it.

Somehow Thunderbird is f'd up now though, the scroll wheel will scroll, but it will open items. wtfbbq.