Imwheel is a tool which adds the support for the special buttons of your mouse like Logitech MX500. I tell you now how to configure it with imwheel.

Install imwheel:

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upkg-build imwheel

If evdev isn't installed install it:

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upkg-build xf86-input-evdev

Now get the infos about evdev:

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cat /proc/bus/input/devices

You'll get something like this:

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I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c025 Version=9802 N: Name="B16_b_02 USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse" P: Phys=usb-0000:00:02.0-9/input0 S: Sysfs=/class/input/input1 H: Handlers=mouse0 event1 B: EV=7 B: KEY=ff0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 B: REL=103

N: will be the name of the device
S: the device
B: EV is the buttons count

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Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

This value is sended by the mouse wheel. The scrollbuttons of the Logitech MX510 send this signals to. For the "Logitech MX500" the Option "ZAxisMapping 6 7" must be instead of "ZAxisMapping 4 5". If you can push your mousewheel also to the left and right change the value to "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7".

Edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf with the needed options:

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$ su password: enter your root password # gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

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#Section "InputDevice" # Identifier "Mouse0" # Driver "mouse" # Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" # Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" # Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" #EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "evdev" Option "CorePointer" Option "Name" "B16_b_02 USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse" # Option "Device" "/dev/input/event1" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Buttons" "7" Option "Resolution" "800" EndSection

Use always the NAME instead of the event! The event can change. Example: connecting the mouse on a different usb-port or during a kernel update.

Now restart the X-Server to check if all works. Do this by pressing "CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE". If you got an error message edit your xorg.conf with nano back to the old settings:

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$ su password: enter your root password # nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

And restart your machine with

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shutdown -r now

Now we can edit the imwheelrc-file:

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$ su password: enter your root password # gedit /etc/X11/imwheel/imwheelrc

Add followed lines to the end of the file:

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".*" None,Thumb1,Alt_L|Left None,Thumb2,Alt_L|Right

Restart again X-server.
Then you can use the thumb buttons for back/forward-actions for example in firefox.

imwheel is now in the main repository.