Hello,
My mouse is Trust MI-2950R and instead of "default" buttons that have each mouse I have some extra-buttons. And there are two buttons for Zoom-in and Zoom-out, but I don't need this feature and wondering...is it possible, to make them for Copy and Paste?

I tried to assign them from the systemsettings, but it gets only keyboard shortcut. Is there a way to make these two buttons as Alternative hotkey?

KDE 4.3.0
Qt 4.4.2
Gentoo 2008.0
Kernel: 2.6.29

Thanks in advance

I don't think it's possible to configure in System Settings, but it should be possible using xbindkeys to bind the mouse button to a command and xte to emulate keyboard press. I use this trick to bind some mouse buttons (with left Super key pressed) to KWin effect, e.g.

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# Present windows
"xte 'keydown Super_L' 'key F10' 'keyup Super_L'"
    m:0x40 + c:133 + b:1


How familiar are you with these kind of tools?

By the way, in case you didn't know: text that you select are automatically copied to the clipboard, and you can paste it with the middle mouse button (usually scroll wheel).

@Hans, I'm using xbindkeys and I'm kind of familiar with it, but I don't know how should I call the copy command, for example.

P.S: I know about this with select -> middleclick, but hate to use it...always mark something just while reading on some page... very useless

As said, you can use xte to do that, e.g.

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# Paste with ctrl-v
"xte 'keydown Control_L' 'key v' 'keyup Control_L'"
    b:6


I haven't tried it myself so I can't guarantee that it works.
If I remember correctly xte is part of xautomation (at least on Arch).