How to Customize a Mouse in Linux

Table of Contents

• Change Mouse Scroll Speed
• Swap mouse left, right buttons

Change Mouse Scroll Speed

• Install imwheel: sudo apt-get install imwheel

• Create ~/.imwheelrc with content:
  

  ".*"
  None,       Up,     Up,     5
  None,       Down,   Down,   5

• Start imwheel in the command line

• Add imwheel into the startup applications.

Swap mouse left, right buttons

Sometimes, the mouse’s left/right buttons are swapped by accident or some program bugs, we would like to change it back.

• install xinput: sudo apt-get install xinput
• xinput --list to check the device id of the mouse.
• xinput --set-button-map ${device_id} 3 2 1 or xinput --set-button-map ${device_id} 1 2 3 to swap left and right button.
• xinput get-button-map ${device_id} to check the mapping