Software

Logitech G5 in Fedora 12

In order to get the G5’s side buttons and 3rd button’s left/right tilt functional in both Firefox and Nautilus, in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

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Section "ServerLayout"
   #...
   InputDevice "Configured Mouse" "Pointer"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier "Configured Mouse"
   Driver "evdev"
   Option "CorePointer"
   Option "Name" "Logitech USB Gaming Mouse"
   Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
   Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
EndSection

NB: F12 does not ship with a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file by default; see Fedora’s guide on how to create one.

Additionally, you need to modify $HOME/.Xmodmap to show:

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pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Also, after:

# yum install xbindkeys xdotool

.. in $HOME/.xbindkeysrc, have:

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# Nautilus:Back
"xdotool key alt+Left"
  b:8

# Nautilus:Forward
"xdotool key alt+Right"
  b:9