As I was lamenting to a member in a private email exchange earlier, Logitech's support for their higher end mice with a gadzillion buttons is non-existent. Since I have this MX610 mouse with what seems to be a gadzillion buttons, I have missed the functionality that I have when I work in Windows.
I had not looked to see if Logitech had provided any drivers to enable the buttons on my MX610 since back in May, so I decided to look again today. Still no drivers from Logitech, but I found this really nifty little utility called btnx.
It allows you to do key mappings to the various buttons like the Windows utility uberoptions does. No more playing with xorg.conf and keymapbindings to try and get stuff working. I hosed my mouse useage several times when I was trying to do it manually and I never did get it working very well.
It does take a little knowledge to get setup, because you have to do some making and configuring from the terminal, but once setup, it seems to be working pretty good.
I have mapped my forward thumb button to show desktop. My rear thumb button to double tap. My sidescroll buttons on the wheel now work correctly.
I am next going to play with remapping the email and IM buttons to some custom compiz-fusion settings.
The utility
http://www.ollisalonen.com/btnx/
Support Thread over at ubuntu
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=455656
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And the world is queer
And the human is strangest of all
01 Dec 2007, 4:03 pm
