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Oli
wrote on the 28 Feb 08 at 21:03
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Agreed. btnx is already the best mouse button manager (on any platform) and with a lick of paint and some integration, it could (and should) be part of every Ubuntu PC.
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It would be great to finally have instant hardware support for the average modern mouse.
So many people have more than a left, right and wheel.
I love this idea!
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Yes, I've wished for this one for a while as the two side buttons and the extra middle button go completely unused.
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aharju
wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 12:22
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I just recently made another Ubuntu Gutsy installation and was somewhat suprised that Gnome still didn't recognize the side buttons right away. Quick back/forward functionality is very useful on many history-aware applications like Nautilus and Firefox.
Adding this functionality is something I always end up configuring manually, and I never seem to get it right without some struggling.
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zzsolti
wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 12:42
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Agreed, an integrated gui for mouse extra buttons is needed, but I think btnx is too complicated for average users (detection process, keycodes, etc).
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I want my 4th and 5th mouse button to move back/forward in Firefox and Eye of GNOME.
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SGusto
wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 14:33
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Totally agree.
Ever since my first wheel mouse (ummm.. in Win95) I've been completely habituated to using the mouse wheel button as a single press for a "double click". You have to hit the forums to find out how to get it to do that using xbindkeys etc. Again, like suspend/resume, something seemingly simple that it can't easily do, detracting from the "OOBE" and adding "FUD".
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blablum
wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 17:43
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Windows allows you to click the wheel and move the mouse up or down to scroll fast through a page. That is the fastest way of scrolling, and I believe should be a feature of ubuntu.
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daou
wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 20:38
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blablum:
You can do this in Firefox by editing your preferences.
Edit->Preferences->Advanced->General->Browsing->Use autoscrolling
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kclive18
wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 21:04
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Yes, I do agree. I have a Logitech MX610 mouse here that has like 10 buttons, and I would love Ubuntu to be able to take advantage of all of them. Same with my keyboard, although I have heard there is a program called KeyTouch that can enable your keyboard's function keys.
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gamegod
wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 06:23
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I've been hoping that this would be fixed in each Ubuntu release to date, but unfortunately it hasn't happened so far. It's probably related to Xorg's configuration system being a mess at the moment, and perhaps once the new config stuff goes in it'll be easier to fix/configure at runtime.
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AnRkey
wrote on the 2 Mar 08 at 10:34
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For the love of FOSS, please please please integrate this into Ubuntu. I have a Logitech mouse for example with 8 buttons and mwheel up and down. It's just crazy to configure this type of mouse by hand. I have 3 workstations and my wife has one of these too. That's four of them to configure. There are loads of people who have complained about this. Here is one of many posts about it. >> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=65471
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slammer
wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 13:10
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totally agree, spent weeks trying to setup microsoft wireless optical desktop, after discovering btnx everything seems to be working correctly after five minutes configuration.
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blablum
wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 19:22
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daou:
Thanks, I cant believe I've been using firefox on linux for years and never noticed that!
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Been whining about this since Hoary, nice to see other people care about it as well :)
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btnx is a true life saver. I have a Logitech G5, and the middle button is really awkward on this mouse. Using btnx I could map the 'left tilt' "button" to work as a middle button and 'right tilt' to open the tracker applet.
Along with Compiz Fusion, there are some really cool things you can do with this application.
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Ewizion
wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 17:18
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Would love this!
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+1
This is simple usability issue that should be solved soon. Ubuntu needs to move towards user friendly things like this if it is going to thrive with normal people
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dondad
wrote on the 7 Mar 08 at 04:47
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I am using btnx and think that it is great. I would love to see it integrated into the distributions. Add my vote for this one.
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Add another vote. I have an MX Revolution and I have to say it kinda sucks that I can't use the side buttons. With Hardy, even btnx can't see them.
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daou
wrote on the 8 Mar 08 at 12:40
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MarcusMaximus:
I've been working on fixing the Hardy issues with btnx. The latest revision in btnx and btnx-config SVN repo trunk fixes it. You can get them with subversion. I will make a v.0.4.7 release for both later once I get a few more changes in.
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Omnios
wrote on the 10 Mar 08 at 18:27
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Hi guys, This sounds great and has a lot of potential. I also see another use for this in Ubuntu and that is in gamming. Currently I have a M$ 4 button mouse running and vista and play a few games where extra button options would be great as I can not set up the extra buttons for the games I am playing. It would be greate if we can get a gameming option sfor this . Sort of like a bar app that can where you can choose a game set up option for particular games that can be set up and stored in the app. So say I am playing "Delta Force 2 or ectreem it you would launch the game setting run the game then be able to use these keys for special functions within the game. Currently this is not possible in Vista so I think this would be a good direction to follow giving a gamming advantage for Ubuntu in general. The more reasons we have to get players using linux for gamming will gain more support for linux gamming in general.
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bayger
wrote on the 14 Mar 08 at 19:25
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I am also sick of editing xorg.conf every time I install ubuntu. This should be done in installation step and/or available in Mouse Preferences.
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vaska
wrote on the 15 Mar 08 at 11:57
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Please add complete support of five-push-button mice logitech " from a box "
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buggyman
wrote on the 21 Mar 08 at 05:20
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yeah! exactly one of the things I am missing since my change from windows, also a frontend for configuring touchpads of laptops should be included. Both with testing included: how fast is the doubleclick, how fast does the mouse pointer move, how sensitive is the arrow, now much acceleration AND speed?
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please, make this one come true!! +++1!
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aidave
wrote on the 15 Apr 08 at 20:25
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Agreed, this is just common sense!
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btnx worked for me...but still ubuntu shoud do these things out of the box. btnx isn't even in the repesetory.....
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gabox
wrote on the 1 May 08 at 08:56
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A4 X-750BF (Hardy Heron). The 4th and 5th button work in Firefox like Forward Backward out of the box.
It would be nice to have some config tool for extra buttons.
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Need my back and forward buttons for Nautilus.
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dmuir
wrote on the 22 May 08 at 00:16
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I personally never use forward and back buttons, but would love to remap them to something else...
One really annoying thing with my mouse (Logitech MX1000), the tilt on the scroll wheel adjusts the volume, which is cool, but it is set up so that tilt-left increases volume, and tilt-right decreases volume, which is the opposite direction to what is shown on screen.
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I agree whole heartedly that Ubuntu needs an integrated solution for extra mouse buttons. I originally planned on using Ubuntu for all my web related stuff, and only booting XP for a couple games. But all of the functions I configured on my mouse for web-browsing are unavailable in Ubuntu, unless I spend hours struggling to get btnx working. I'm new to linux and chose Ubuntu because it's supposed to be the easiest to use out of the box, half of my hardware isn't working or isn't working correctly but the last one I expected to have trouble with was my mouse.
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DriXiLB
wrote on the 28 Jul 08 at 23:18
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I recently got a mouse with 5 buttons, (left, middle, right, and 2 more in the left), and i got worried that it wouldn't work. So i looked at ubuntu forums and found a lot of really confusing guides that might or might not work for my specific mouse.
I would like to see that ubuntu supported all the mice that has many more than the usual 3 buttons. As default.
+1
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oZZ
wrote on the 21 Oct 08 at 10:58
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This idea became even more important since btnx as-is unfortunately will not run on ubuntu 8.10.
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m_gol
wrote on the 1 Nov 08 at 19:02
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+1
I cannot map last, 6th button of my Logitech MX310 mouse... (in Windows XP/Vista its role is to change between applications).
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+1
The lack of support for a multi-button mouse is the only thing about Ubuntu that makes me think "Well, its free, what did you expect?" And it shouldn't be like that.
Probably the worst thing about switching to Ubuntu from Vista is not having my trusty Logitech Mediaplay 10-button mouse work correctly. There are no universal settings for anything more than a 2-button mouse and scrollwheel, and each app treats the additional buttons however it wants, or doesn't recognize them at all. This provides a non-uniform user experience across different apps.
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