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Asked: 2019-04-07 21:10:26 +0800 CST

Mapping Left/Right side-buttons using xev

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I'm trying to configure my mouse side-buttons to go back/forward on Firefox and Ubuntu.

When i run xev | grep ', button' I get the same button code for both side-buttons and scroll. So I clicked scroll, then left side-button then right side-button and got the following output:

    state 0x10, button 2, same_screen YES
    state 0x210, button 2, same_screen YES
    state 0x10, button 2, same_screen YES
    state 0x210, button 2, same_screen YES
    state 0x10, button 2, same_screen YES
    state 0x210, button 2, same_screen YES

So, I have three buttons with the same number/code? Is there anything I can do to assign a different code for each button? Or is it a hardware issue?

mouse mouse-wheel xev

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  1. Best Answer

    Run the command xmodmap -pp

    out put will be similar to like this

    pratap@i7-6550U:~$ xmodmap -pp
There are 10 pointer buttons defined.

    Physical        Button
     Button          Code
        1              1
        2              2
        3              3
        4              4
        5              5
        6              6
        7              7
        8              8
        9              9
       10             10

pratap@i7-6550U:~$

    this means when the Physical Button 1 is pressed the Button Code 1 function will be done which is just a mouse click. In your case you have pressed the middle mouse button first and then side buttons in which the middle mouse button is button 2, that is correct. left side and right side buttons should have a value of 6 & 7 (my guessing only)

    in general left click, middle mouse button, right click, scroll down, scroll up are Physcial Buttons 1 to 5.

    In your case you need to map Physical Buttons 6 & 7 to Button Codes 6 & 7.

    run the command xmodmap -pp and see what is showing for Physical Buttons 6 & 7

    then run xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 6 7"

    Example:

    pratap@i7-6550U:~$ xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 6 7" Warning: Only changing the first 7 of 10 buttons. pratap@i7-6550U:~$

    xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 6 7" command works instantly but will not survive logout or reboot. add this command in start up applications Preferences once you are satisfied with this mapping.

    when ever you want to go back to default behaviour, run xmodmap -e "pointer = default" and delete the entry from start up application.

    source: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/xmodmap.1.html

    Check what are the functions doing by pressing your mouse Physical Buttons in actual by clicking them.. if they are intended to do back/ forwarded out of the box, that's fine. If they do nothing. Map those keys to do back/ forward from this Q&A binding back/forward to mouse buttons

    Edit:

    According to the website of your mouse vendor http://www.sentey.com/br/whirlwindx there should be a software for configuring side buttons but i did not find any link to it. Also the support for this mouse is only to the OS'es Windows & MacOs it seems.

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