[SOLVED] How do I assign the functions to the extra buttons on my mouse?

[vhradice]

I have a 5-button mouse. Actually there are 4 buttons and the wheel. From what I have read, the wheel has several different functions that it can do. Scroll up/down, scroll left/right ,and be pressed. I have not found a place where I assign the function to the button. I have used xev to identify which button is which button code. The buttons I want to assign functions to are 8 and 9. I want to assign "Enter" to 8 and "Esc" to 9.
I am running FC16 with KDE4. Where do I make this change?

Thanks in advance.

[Salamandra]

Originally Posted by vhradice

I have a 5-button mouse. Actually there are 4 buttons and the wheel. From what I have read, the wheel has several different functions that it can do. Scroll up/down, scroll left/right ,and be pressed. I have not found a place where I assign the function to the button. I have used xev to identify which button is which button code. The buttons I want to assign functions to are 8 and 9. I want to assign "Enter" to 8 and "Esc" to 9.
I am running FC16 with KDE4. Where do I make this change?

Thanks in advance.

I had that problem with a logitech marble mouse and solved it using xinput.

This guide is for a trackball, but probably you can tweak it to achieve what you want.

http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/unix/xinput

In order to get it working i added the commands to be run when the session starts.

[vhradice]

I have seen references to setting the pointer mapping numbers - pointer = numbers. Where do I say button 8 is "Enter"? I have seen references to xmodmap but no where can I find out how to say "Mouse button 8 is the Enter key". Somewhere there is a file that has the mapping between each mouse button and the command associated with it. What is that file?

Thanks.

[Salamandra]

Sorry for late answer, i have been googling and it seems that you can achieve what you want using xbinkeys. It is in the repos, i have no experience in it so i can't help you with it.

[vhradice]

I have tried xbindkeys without success. Somewhere there is a file which maps the mouse keys and wheel movement to functions. I can alter what does what by changing the pointer values. My question is What is that file?

[vhradice]

Further searching has come up with what I think is happening. I was looking on the X11 site and I cam across the statement that X passes the button code to the application and the application then determines the action to be performed. I am presuming from this that the mapping is done by the application. If I want a special function for a specific key, I need to map that in the application. I have also figured out that not all applications map the buttons and will accept a function passed into it. I found this out by using xbindkeys.
I consider this solved.