[TriLUG] mouse button mappings

[sholton at mindspring.com]

Ron Joffe <rjoffe at yahoo.com> wrote:
 
> I just picked up a Logitech MX700 mouse.
> 
> This thing has a bunch of extra buttons on it, and I was 
> wondering if any of you have references or experiances with 
> mapping buttons to either key sequences or to launch programs.

You can use /usr/bin/mev to see the keycodes each one generates
(if any) which might be detected by gpm.  Since seeing is the 
first step to understanding, you'll want to test things out here
first.