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    <title><![CDATA[Mouse Button Extension]]></title>
    <link>http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/120/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Ubuntu should take full advantage of all available mouse buttons.<br />Integrate this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/146160<br /><br />
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<b>[3179 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #120</b>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Oli</title>
  <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Techno.FM</title>
  <description><![CDATA[It would be great to finally have instant hardware support for the average modern mouse.<br /><br />So many people have more than a left, right and wheel.<br /><br />I love this idea!]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Lars Noodén</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Yes, I've wished for this one for a while as the two side buttons and the extra middle button go completely unused.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from aharju</title>
  <description><![CDATA[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.<br /><br />Adding this functionality is something I always end up configuring manually, and I never seem to get it right without some struggling.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from zzsolti</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Agreed, an integrated gui for mouse extra buttons is needed, but I think btnx is too complicated for average users (detection process, keycodes, etc).]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Eldmannen</title>
  <description><![CDATA[I want my 4th and 5th mouse button to move back/forward in Firefox and Eye of GNOME.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from SGusto</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Totally agree.<br /><br />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".]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from blablum</title>
  <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from daou</title>
  <description><![CDATA[blablum:<br /><br />You can do this in Firefox by editing your preferences.<br />Edit->Preferences->Advanced->General->Browsing->Use autoscrolling]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from kclive18</title>
  <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from gamegod</title>
  <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from AnRkey</title>
  <description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from slammer</title>
  <description><![CDATA[totally agree, spent weeks trying to setup microsoft wireless optical desktop, after discovering btnx everything seems to be working correctly after five minutes configuration.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from blablum</title>
  <description><![CDATA[daou:<br />Thanks, I cant believe I've been using firefox on linux for years and never noticed that!]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Pekkalainen</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Been whining about this since Hoary, nice to see other people care about it as well :)]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from k99goran</title>
  <description><![CDATA[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.<br /><br />Along with Compiz Fusion, there are some really cool things you can do with this application.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from frandavid100</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Those who like this idea might like this one, too:<br /><br />idea #3046: Integrate "extra buttons" in mouse properties<br /><br />Here's a quick mockup of it:<br /><br />http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/3476/pantallazo1te7.png ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Ewizion</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Would love this!]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from aeischeid</title>
  <description><![CDATA[+1 <br /><br />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]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from dondad</title>
  <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from MarcusMaximus</title>
  <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from daou</title>
  <description><![CDATA[MarcusMaximus:<br /><br />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.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Omnios</title>
  <description><![CDATA[ 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.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from bayger</title>
  <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from vaska</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Please add complete support of five-push-button mice logitech " from a box "]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from buggyman</title>
  <description><![CDATA[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?]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from wladston</title>
  <description><![CDATA[please, make this one come true!! +++1!]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from aidave</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Agreed, this is just common sense!]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from lionbeast</title>
  <description><![CDATA[btnx worked for me...but still ubuntu shoud do these things out of the box. btnx isn't even in the repesetory.....]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from gabox</title>
  <description><![CDATA[A4 X-750BF (Hardy Heron). The 4th and 5th button work in Firefox like Forward Backward out of the box.<br /><br />It would be nice to have some config tool for extra buttons.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 08:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from maccadon</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Need my back and forward buttons for Nautilus.<br />]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 07:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from dmuir</title>
  <description><![CDATA[I personally never use forward and back buttons, but would love to remap them to something else...<br /><br />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.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 00:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from mengmoshu</title>
  <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from DriXiLB</title>
  <description><![CDATA[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.<br />I would like to see that ubuntu supported all the mice that has many more than the usual 3 buttons. As default.<br /><br />+1]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from oZZ</title>
  <description><![CDATA[This idea became even more important since btnx as-is unfortunately will not run on ubuntu 8.10.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from m_gol</title>
  <description><![CDATA[+1<br /><br />I cannot map last, 6th button of my Logitech MX310 mouse... (in Windows XP/Vista its role is to change between applications).]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from BassKozz</title>
  <description><![CDATA[+1<br />I am having a hard time getting the buttons on my Logitech Mx500 to work properly on Intrepid: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=970711]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from martini1179</title>
  <description><![CDATA[+1 <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 23:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
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