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mouse button mapping

Mar 17th, 2007

I was wondering if there is any way to map mouse buttons to commands and override the wm's button mapping.

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Re: mouse button mapping

Mar 17th, 2007

Google mysteriously had a break-down the moment you tried to use it?
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Advance...tton_Remapping

Last edited by John A; Mar 17th, 2007 at 8:47 pm.

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Re: mouse button mapping

Mar 18th, 2007

The tutorial tells you how to make your buttons recongizable in X. All my buttons are recongized. I was wondering how I could make a script or edit the xorg.conf file so when i clicked a particular button a specified executable would run. At the end of the tutorial it said this is a nice little script that you can bind with your wm. I asked how to do it independent of my wm. I am not sure if my windows manager can actually do that (I use iceWM).