Get the most out of your mouse with btnx
When you splashed out for a new swanky mouse like Logitech VX Nano, you sure want to make the most out of your investment, which means making its programmable buttons work. The problem is, however, that many Linux distributions recognize most mice as a generic pointing device, so none of the fancy extra buttons work right out of the box. Fortunately, the btnx utility can help you to turn your mouse into a versatile tool it meant to be.
btnx comes in two parts: the btnx daemon that does the behind-the-scenes work of managing mouse buttons events, and the btnx-config tool, a graphical front-end that helps configuring mouse button actions. btnx Web site provides packages for Ubuntu and openSUSE as well as source code archives for other distributions. As it often happens, the packages are a step behind the source code distribution, so if you want to install the latest and greatest version of btnx, you have to go the usual ”./configure make make install” route.
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