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I followed exactly the Howto on the wiki for mapping F6 and F7 to the mouse. The mappings work as soon as I play back a video. It stops working after switching to the KDE-Desktop and reactivating the Orbiter. They work under KDE all the time though. Can you confirm this?

It works while playing media as well. Not only the menu works, but I also can fast-forward/backward, change chapters. Stuff that you do with F6.

Dude! It works! Here's how:

It's not a solution, but more like a work around. I'm shure there's a bug in Orbiter.

I just restarted LinuxMCE and the mappings didn't work. I played back a video and suddenly it worked. After stopping the video and playing back some audio it still works. As soon as I switch to the KDE-Desktop and back to the Orbiter it doesn't work anymore, but after starting a video it works again. I tried this three to four times and it always works. Could you try that and tell me your experiences?

So something happens when I start playing a video. That must be interesting for the developers. But I should have gone to bed hours ago so I'll try to submit a bugreport tomorrow.

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The funny thing is, that it sometimes works. I don't know when and why, but after a fresh reboot the menus sometimes show up when I press the mouse buttons. Pretty random behavior. My next guess is that xbindkeys must be started before the Orbiter to capture the events and somehow sometimes Orbiter or xbindkeys starts first, but I seriously doubt that. I'll try to find out anyway.

Did it ever work with your mouse?

I downloaded the newest version of xbindkeys and compiled it but that doesn't solve the problem either.

That's sad

What I tried so far is to map an 'echo "something" > /home/linuxme/bla.txt' to one of the mouse buttons so everytime I hit that button there's a new line with "something" in the file. After activating the Orbiter and pressing the button several times there are no lines added to the file. My guess is, that Orbiter itself captures the mouse button events before xbindkeys does. Maybe there's a way to run xbindkeys with higher priority or whatever to be the first application to captere the events, but I don't know how.

I only wonder why this problem is not reported more often, as there must be a lot of people using their more-than-three-button-mouses with linuxmce instead of a gyromouse, or am I wrong?  Btw.: how are the three extra buttons on the gyro mouse mapped to the menu functions?

Same problem here: The two extra buttons on my logitech mouse are mapped to F6 and F7 which I confirmed with xev in xterm. But when I switch to the Orbiter the menus won't show up. They show up when I hit F6 or F7 on the keyboard. Any suggestions?