Mapping Extra Buttons

post by ChristianKl · 2014-07-18T17:32:01.015Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 3 comments
A lot of modern computer mouses have more than two buttons. They also have a clickable wheel and extra buttons.
I use a Logitech Wireless Trackball M570 with has two customizable extra button. At the moment I mapped one
to the ENTER key and the other to navigate back.

How do you map extra buttons on your mouse?

If your keyboard has mappable extra buttons, what function do you give them?

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comment by Risto_Saarelma · 2014-07-19T09:29:12.985Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Downvoted. How about we don't turn quite this much into lifehacks.com.

comment by pinyaka · 2014-07-19T05:13:10.312Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I have a 13 button mouse (Logitech G700). I use the left, middle and right button as normal. The wheel tilt left and right I have mapped to open a new tab and close a tab in a browser. The close tab is Ctrl+w which closes a lot of things, at least in linux. I use the ?zoom? button to refresh (F5). The three buttons beside the left button I have mapped to raise, lower and mute the system sound. The four buttons on the side I use to navigate forward and backwards, and to go to the next or previous tab.

My mouse buttons are obviously used mostly for web browsing. I use i3 for a window manager and do most of my work in emacs and on the command line where using a mouse seriously shows me down. I don't use my programmable buttons much because I have to lift my hands to get to them. I do have my left control and caps lock swapped though.