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In Windows, I use the X-Mouse utility to remap my mouse thumb buttons. I have one assigned as copy, and the other as paste.

In KDE, I was happy to discover that I don't need a separate utility to assign one of my thumb buttons as paste. In fact the middle (mouse-wheel) button is already assigned as Paste by default (OpenSUSE 11.3 if not elsewhere). And there's a desktop settings dialog with a "Mouse Actions" section that allows me to configure these.

The trouble is, there's only 6 possible actions for each button - and copy isn't one of them.

The info for each mouse action suggests that these are pluggable components - but I don't know how to find/install extra ones.

Is it possible to get an extra "copy" mouse action and, if so, how?

Gareth
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I do not know which settings dialog you are talking about. KDE 4.5 gesture support does not take extra mouse buttons into account (long-standing bug).

As a work-around, use xbindkeys to capture events from extra mouse buttons and xvkbd to emit key combinations. The advantage is that this works at the X level, independent from KDE as desktop environment. The disadvantage is that if you decide to alter your keyboard combinations for copy/paste, you have to change the xbindkeys configuration file manually, too.

daxim
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According to this blog post, xbindkeys can be used to bind mouse buttons as well as keyboard keys. You can even bind commands to combinations like Control + Mouse Button.

Also, you don't have to edit the xbindkeys configuration file yourself. There's a program called xbindkeys-config that you can install to configure it graphically.

Ryan C. Thompson
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btnx is a capable graphical tool to configure your buttoned devices.

you can use it to run scripts/commands and even define modifier keys/buttons to generate button-combinations.

flying sheep
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