Multi-Button Mouse and Linux Mint

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The goal of this article is to address the USB mouse which has more than the typical three buttons and how to configure the additional buttons under Linux Mint/Ubuntu/Debian. The article is Mint centric however should apply to Ubuntu and to some degree the base distribution of Debian.

Goals:

  1. Disable extra macro buttons on a multi-button mouse -or-
  2. Program macros for extra buttons on a multi-button mouse.

The Problem:

The problem is specifically, in Mint Linux, this nearly absolutely useless developer lazy mouse control applet interface:

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