I'm continuing on my quest to find a simple (or at least straightforward) way to program additional mouse buttons. I have a logitech trackman which has 5 buttons + wheel. In Mint (or other distros I've trief) it only seems to support left and right buttons and wheel up/down.
I've looked into it a bit and only found two solutions: 1) a program that looked promising but only supported a limited number of mice (and mine wasn't), and 2) some somewhat convoluted way to bind or intercept the input codes. I have very limited experience with linux command line operations, mostly just blindly following search results fron stack overflow.
Hard to believe there isn't wide support for full functionality of expanded mouse functions (?). Also, as I understand it logitech doesn't really support linux. With so much emphasis on "gaming" these days, there has to be a way to use the additional buttons. Just FYI my trackman has left, right, wheel button, and 2 buttons on the side along with the normal wheel rotation (and of course the ball for cursor motion). The model is M570.
If anyone has a quick solution off the top of their head I'd like to hear it.
I've looked into it a bit and only found two solutions: 1) a program that looked promising but only supported a limited number of mice (and mine wasn't), and 2) some somewhat convoluted way to bind or intercept the input codes. I have very limited experience with linux command line operations, mostly just blindly following search results fron stack overflow.
Hard to believe there isn't wide support for full functionality of expanded mouse functions (?). Also, as I understand it logitech doesn't really support linux. With so much emphasis on "gaming" these days, there has to be a way to use the additional buttons. Just FYI my trackman has left, right, wheel button, and 2 buttons on the side along with the normal wheel rotation (and of course the ball for cursor motion). The model is M570.
If anyone has a quick solution off the top of their head I'd like to hear it.