0

I am running Kubuntu 16.04, for which I recently purchased a MMO mouse with many extra buttons (the UtechSmart Venus to be specific).

As those buttons would be of good use, I wanted to map some of them to things as Volume Up / Volume Down / Pause-Play, etc. I started doing so under System Settings -> Shortcuts and it worked fine.

The problem is, the bindings are mapped to numbers (e.g. 1 is Volume Up), which in turn also happen on the keyboard. This is undesired!

  • Is there a way to uniquely map the mouse extra buttons without interfering with the keyboard keys?

  • What are other customization options for custom key bindings for the mouse under (K)ubuntu?

I came across https://sourceforge.net/projects/kbmaster/ , but was wondering if there was a way to avoid it. Also not sure if it will work with a mouse instead of a keyboard.

titus.andronicus
  • 73

1 Answers1

1

I would simply use xbindkeys , it can bind nearly anything to a key/button press ( if you combine it with xautomation can make mouse button clicks from keyboard for example).

If you feel uncomfortable with config files maybe you can try using xbindkeys-config (GUI).

Also if your mouse buttons are not recognized, you probably need to use the evdev driver. Check this Ubuntu wiki page for more info.

Hope it helps.

dgonzalez
  • 7,010
  • 6
  • 19
  • 28
  • I installed and tried to capture the extra buttons as described here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/152297/how-to-configure-extra-buttons-in-logitech-mouse with xev. But sadly the extra MMO keys on the side (1..12) are not recognized.. any idea? – titus.andronicus Jan 05 '17 at 20:59
  • Maybe some problem with your muose driver, you probably need to switch to the evdev driver. I added a link on the answer with more instructions. – dgonzalez Jan 05 '17 at 21:51