Help with mouse back buttons...going nuts with this.

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I’m going crazy trying to get the back and forward side buttons on my mouse to work correctly. They work fine in Firefox but I can’t get them to work in Dolphin or Konqueror. I have the shortcut in Dolphin and Konqueror set to “ALT + LEFT ARROW” and “ALT + RIGHT ARROW” which is the same as Firefox, but it still won’t work.

I even tried adding the following to xorg.conf with no sucess. It only ends up breaking the forward and back in Firefox.

Option       "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7"

I even tried:


Option       "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 8 9"

but that doesn’t work either. The mouse that I’m using is a Logitech Cordless click plus. When I was on Ubuntu I was able to get it working using “imwheel” but that doesn’t seem to be available in the repos, plus I’d like to do something a little bit simpler if possible.

Could anyone offer any suggestions on how to get this working?

Here’s a copy of my mouse settings in xorg.conf in case it will help.

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "mouse"
  Identifier   "Mouse[1]"
  Option       "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7"
  Option       "Buttons" "12"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
  Option       "Name" "PS2++ Logitech MX Mouse"
  Option       "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
  Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"
  Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Thanks

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I got it going. I ended up installing “imwheel” from source.

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So what changes did it make to your xorg.conf?