Comment 4 for bug 42678
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| Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote Re: Beta 2 text installer - Logitech MX500 mouse forward/back buttons not detected | #4 |
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In Hardy we will upgrade to xorg-server which has input hotplug capabilities. With that feature, we may be better able to address input features such as this one, or perhaps add better GUI config tools or something. Currently, there's not a clear way of getting this to work out of the box.
In bug 47579, which appears to be a dupe of this one, the following workaround was suggested:
The program imwheel and needs to be installed. Then the following needs to be in ~/.imwheelrc:
".*"
None, Thumb1, Alt_L|Left
None, Thumb2, Alt_L|Right
Another approach, suggested in dupe bug 107900, is to switch from "ImPS/2" to "ExplorerPS/2". Currently, xserver's postinst script sets ImPS/2 as the default protocol, which is not correct for all mouse types.