Setting up extra mouse buttons

[zahtar]

Hello everyone.

I keep trying to edit xorg.conf to use my side mouse buttons as discribed here,
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=27470

but it messes up with my screen resolution. then I need to start in recovery mode, autofix X server, reinstall nvidia driver, change resolution and of course my side mouse buttons still don't work. So if I try this I keep messing with the display settings, having to set them from the beginning for nothing.

Instead of dealing with xorg.conf, of imwheel, or whatever, wouldn't it be easier to set it in system settings? for example in the "general" tab where we choose between right or left handed mouse, we could specify if the button has 7 buttons (that's with the wheel and the side buttons) or whatever else. I think it would be a lot easier especially for people not wanting to mess with system files.
Plz consider this in an upgrade of 9.04 or in the 9.10 release.

if the above mentioned instructions don't apply to kubuntu and you can think of something better I would really appreciate it. Already read the official how to in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ManyButtonsMouseHowto

thnx in advance

[askrieger]

Re: Setting up extra mouse buttons

Did you try the 1236745 thing?

[zahtar]

Re: Setting up extra mouse buttons

yes I tried editing the xorg.conf as instructed in those pages, but the whole thing messes up because it cant accept any changes. I sudo kate it, save, reboot and then everything is gone. it seems that whenever I edit xorg.conf it rejects any changes and starts with an empty file. That's why I was thinkin of setting up x settigs manually. But I don't know how