How do i setup the mouse buttons to be all the same?

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Boo
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Post by Boo »

check this out.

http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/wiw ... se+Buttons

you could set all buttons to the same or only let one work.

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Post by telic »

How do I setup the buttons on the mouse, so that no matter what is pressed, it is always a left-click?
My optical wheel-mouse has two buttons, and emulates a third. I could disable the virtual 3rd button, but that isn't necessary. For this example, all 3 buttons will be mapped to the left button (#1).

Go Terminal to edit the xorg.conf file in superuser mode...

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sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Find the "InputDevice" section for the mouse. It looks something like this...

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Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier   "Configured Mouse"
    Driver       "mouse"
    Option       "CorePointer"
    Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option       "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection
Append the following option, to remap all (3) of the mouse buttons to button #1...

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Option   "ButtonMapping" "1 1 1"
Note there's one "1" for each mouse button that'll be mapped to button #1.

The X mouse section then looks something like this, with the ButtonMapping option...

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Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier   "Configured Mouse"
    Driver       "mouse"
    Option       "CorePointer"
    Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option       "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
    Option       "ButtonMapping" "1 1 1"
EndSection
Save the xorg.conf file. Close all open apps and restart the X server (CTRL-ALT-Backspace).

All (3) of the mouse buttons now act as the left button.

Does this work for you?

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