That is pretty odd, I don't tend to use my mouse to paste data, rather hotkeys like ctrl/shift-insert or ctrl-shift-c/v, but weird it maps so poorly linux can't figure it out.  Never seen that myself.

What sort of mouse is it?  Could just be a crap gadget.

I mostly use trackballs these days, but prior using logitech/microsoft mice, and belkin/elecom random trackballs with many keys, never run into having to remap mouse buttons for at least the primary 3.

As Eazy-E once said, throw it in the gutter, go buy another.

-mb


On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 4:44 PM Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
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> [0] And confuse people.  My mouse has left, middle, right, wheel up,
> wheel down, and 2 mystery buttons.  xmodmap reports 10 buttons.
> Mystery button 1 reports a button 9 event.  Mystery button 2 switches
> to the next window and does not report a button event.  *shrug*

I've partially solved this.  The first button consistently reports a
button 9 event.  When button 9 is being held, pushing the second button
reports a button 8 event.  Pushing the second button by itself produces
a KeyPress event for Shift_L, another for Meta_L, then a KeymapNotify
that probably clears the Shift modifier, then KeyReleases event for
ISO_Left_Tab and Meta_L.  Which is interesting but not particularly
useful.  I still don't know where buttons 6, 7, and 10 are on this
thing.

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