binding functions to mouse buttons

[Icculus]

is it possible to bind functions to mouse buttons ? i have a 7 button explorer and the scroll wheel works fine all the buttons are fine , but the 2 side buttons emulate mouse 2 and mouse 3 i wanna make them kp_pgup and kp_pgdn

or really anything othert hen the same stuff already on the mouse .

is this possible ?? ive looked around everywhere i can think of , no dice on this topic

thnx in advance

[Icculus]

*bump*
i know it can be done , i did it be accident once

any help would be great appreciated :)

[Malakin]

To set it up so you can do anything with your extra two buttons you need to follow these instructions: http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/intellimouseexplorer.html

Then you should be able to do something with the extra buttons.

I think you can put commands in your $HOME/.Xdefaults file for them. I'm not sure how to get this working though.

You can also use imwheel, just edit /etc/X11/imwheelrc
and *apparently* the 6th and 7th buttons are still called "up" and "down" on a 7 button mouse when you configure it correctly.