Ubuntu 7.04 - Configure Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2.0
This post shows how to get the side buttons (back/forward) on the Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2.0 to work in Firefox in Ubuntu 7.04:
Edit xorg.conf
$ sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Find this section:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection
and replace it with this:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7"
EndSection
Save the file. Next time you restart Gnome, your back/forward mouse buttons should work in FireFox. You can restart Gnome by pressing CTRL+ALT+Backspace on your keyboard, or by running this command in terminal:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart
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[...] Det första jag gör när jag installerat Ubuntu är att ordna stöd för min Microsoft Intellimouse 3.0a. Istället för att leta mig tokig pÃ¥ nätet har jag nu postat hur det görs även här pÃ¥ min egen blogg. Texten är en översatt version av erusan’s. För den som har en Intellimouse Explorer 2.o finns en kortare beskrivning här. [...]
These are good directions, they worked for my Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer for Bluetooth. However, a word of caution, don’t copy and paste the new xorg.conf changes. The website uses actual quotation marks instead of double apostrophes, so when you paste it into the xorg.conf the quotation marks show up as special characters and will crash your X server. I was able to recover it by getting into a command line and using nano to change the special characters to double apostrophes. In case you’re ever in that situation, get to a command line and type sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf then modify the special characters. (hint: the ^X means to hold Ctrl and press X). Good luck.
I must agree with Bradley, these are really good directions, but the user need to be carefull and replace the quotation marks with double apstrophes (”). After that it worked with my Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2.0.
Thanks for the feedback. I have updated the post so that the correct quotation marks should now be displayed.
This is the only one that I have found that works for the intellimouse 1.1..
A lot of others say you have to do a whole lot more… but this way is so simple..
Thanks…