Customizing Touchpad Buttons [Solved]

I want to change the behaviour of the touchpad buttons without screwing with tapping.
Googling didn't help and I'm no expert on GNU software and this could be useful for everyone searches.
I'm on Openbox + Tint2 enviroment if that matters.
Editing WM's rc or directly xorg is..?
Also a step by step explanation would be nice, if not neccessary.
Cheers!
NotaBene: I thouth it was related to laptops but can ...
Last edited by Gulver (2013-05-26 14:29:54)

matyilona200 wrote:Take a look at Touchpad Synaptics.
I tampered synaptics conf, there you can only play with the taps but that actually helped me to find out that synaptics configuration is unrelated to mouse buttons.
Guess I'm gonna search for a change edit to good-old mouse conf, tell me if not.
Thanks.
Last edited by Gulver (2013-05-26 08:40:40)

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