I am trying to get the side buttons of the wheel of my mouse (Logitech Bluetooth mouse V470) to work in Ubuntu 17.10. It used to work on Ubuntu 16.04 under imwheel (on another machine).

This is my current configuration:

$ cat .imwheelrc
".*"
None, Left, Alt_L|Left
None, Right, Alt_L|Right
$ cat /etc/X11/imwheel/startup.conf
IMWHEEL_START=0
IMWHEEL_PARAMS='-b "6 7"'

What is wrong with it?

Thank you

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I solved by following this procedure.

Still would like to know why imwheel doesn't work...

You should already have these as they should come with Ubuntu, but run this just in case.

sudo apt-get install libdaemon-dev libglade2-dev libgtk2.0-dev 

Now, download & install

1) btnx-config2) btnx In this order.

To install:

Unzip, and cd into each of these folders.

In each of them run:

./configure make
sudo make
sudo make install

Once both of them are installed, run

sudo btnx-config

In Configurations tab, click Detect Mouse & Buttons

In Buttons tab, assign your mouse button a key or functionality. Make sure you ☑ check mark enabled.

Lastly, in Configurations tab, click on Restart btx button so your changes take effect.

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