Middle mouse button

Hello,
I have a Logitech MX Air mouse. It does not have a middle mouse button, which I would be glad to have.
There's a touch scroll between the left and right mouse buttons. In both ends of this touch scroll is also buttons to scroll up and down. Meaning there's an actual button between left and right mouse buttons in addition to touch scroll.
On Windows I had Logitech's own control panel to change the actions of the buttons. The "Scroll down"-button on the touch scroll was set as a middle mouse button. So, there's the button and it is possible to distinguish between scrolling down on the touch scroll and pressing this scroll down -button.
On linux, however, trying to set the scroll down -button as a middle mouse also sets scrolling down on the touch pad to middle mouse.
What would be the proper approach to change only the scroll down -button to behave as a middle mouse button without affecting scrolling down on the touch pad?

@Offtopic
emeres wrote:...
Edit: Since there is no real distinction between scrolling and pressing the button, it could be problematic.
This isn't 100% right but in most cases you are right. Xinput 2 in 2011 implemented smooth scrolling which isn't based on button events.
I want to highlight that because i have been interested about my wacom tablet, and why it is scrolling in granularized way and now i know, there is hope - driver is just outdated. Wacom driver is using buttons to handle scroll event. Hopefully it handle many touches(i think it's over 5). So, what we need is external application* which would be able to handle gestures. I've found one.. but it isn't the best one: touchegg. It lacks zoom on pinch, rotating gesture etc. but it is scrolling smooth with wacom tablet. Touchegg is abandoned(?), or very slowly developed. It is using ga GEIS C Api - [=URL=]
* gestures hardcoded in driver? it's not best idea
http://who-t.blogspot.de/2011/09/whats- … lling.html
http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/i … 2proto.txt - v2.2, March 2012: Multitouch support added
Last edited by janepe (2014-08-19 04:31:24)

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