Natasha Kerensikova wrote: > it started as a bug report: it have a 5-button mouse with a wheel, even > though I don't use much the buttons 4 and 5 (I think only for previous > and next in firefox history). I recently switched to OpenBSD, and I was > surprised to find these buttons cause scrolling, like the wheel. If this > behavior is intended, the rest of this e-mail is moot.
This isn't a bug apparently. Are the extra buttons recognised by xev? If they are, remap them with xmodmap(1). If they aren't, well, then it should be done by xf86-input-evdev or libinput. There's been some work in FreeBSD, and the drivers are in ports, but OpenBSD doesn't have them. -- caóc
