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Here is how to set up your intelliexplorer mouse from microsoft in ubuntu so that the thumb buttons work like they do in windows… This has been discovered from this website…


cat /proc/bus/input/devices # find which event the mouse is on
sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

After the existing inputdevices section add this:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Microsoft Intellimouse"
Driver "evdev"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/event3”
Option “Buttons” “7″
Option “ZAxisMapping” “6 7 5 4″
Option “Emulate3Buttons” “no”
EndSection

Note: replace the bold event3 with the even found in the first step

Now add this above the mice in the serverlayout section:
InputDevice "Microsoft Intellimouse" "CorePointer"

sudo apt-get install imwheel #installs imwheel...


Add the following command to your startup commands in the sessions manager…

imwheel -k -b "89"