Enabling Side Buttons of Scrolls V470 in Gutsy

After resuming for long holidays, just realize that someone ask me through commenting of my previous posting asking about enabling side buttons in V470 that I was missed before. Thanks pershy for reminding me.

Actually, there are several ways to do it, but I will write just one of them:

• Get information of your device by issuing

$ cat /proc/bus/input/devices
inspect similar to these following lines:
I: Bus=0005 Vendor=046d Product=b008 Version=0313
N: Name="Bluetooth Laser Travel Mouse"
P: Phys=[your device's physical id]
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input[your input device sequence number]
U: Uniq=[your device unique bluetooth address]
H: Handlers=mouse2 event6
B: EV=7
B: KEY=ff0000 0 0 0 0
B: REL=143


• Edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to have:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "V470"
Driver "evdev"
Option "Name" "Bluetooth Laser Travel Mouse"
Option "Dev Phys" "[your device's physical id]"
EndSection
...
Section "ServerLayout"
...
InputDevice "V470"
...
EndSection


• Restart your X (Ctrl+Alt+Backspace)
• From xev we can get button code of left or right direction of scroll button, left is 11 and right is 12
• Next step, I want to bind it to key of back and forward history in Firefox that is Alt+Left and Alt+Right button
• Install xbindkeys

$ sudo apt-get install xbindkeys xvkbd

• Create ~.xbindkeysrc and put this lines:

"/usr/bin/xvkbd -xsendevent -text "\[Alt_L]\[Left]""
b:11
"/usr/bin/xvkbd -xsendevent -text "\[Alt_L]\[Right]""
b:12

• Execute xbindkeys for current session, and add it to System->Preference->Sessions to load it on each logon

I hope this will help you…