logitech side buttons

[obsidion]

Hello,

I have a question, I want my side buttons for my logitech mouse (mx 518) not only to work with firefox, but also in konqueror (easy for browsing). But I don't know how to configure it.

thanks in advance!

[firephoto]

Re: logitech side buttons

Hi.

What I do with my logitech is install xbindkeys and xvkbd and use them for mapping the buttons to key sequences.

So you would have an ~/.xbindkeysrc file with something similar to the following.

"/usr/bin/xvkbd -xsendevent -text "\[Alt_L]\[Left]""
 b:8
"/usr/bin/xvkbd -xsendevent -text "\[Alt_L]\[Right]""
 b:9

That gives you forward and back for button 8 and 9. You can use 'xev | grep button' to figure out the button numbers for the ones you want to configure and put those in the file above. After that just browse to ~/.kde/Autostart/ in konqueror and then right click in some space and 'Create new... Link to Application' and name it and on the Application tab on the Command line put 'xbindkeys' and click Ok. That will run xbindkeys whenever KDE starts up.