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I installed imwheel correctly with sudo apt-get install imwheel. Afterwards I did insert this:

".*"
None,       Up,     Up,     10
None,       Down,   Down,   10

in my ~/.imwheelrc file. The scrolling works perfectly now. However the back / forth navigation buttons from my mouse(Logitecg G700) don't work anymore.

If I kill the process with killall imwheel, the buttons work.

Do you have any suggestions / ideas how to fix this? I'd like to use imwheel.

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Reset to default
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You can restrict imwheel to only affect the scroll wheel with the -b option. See man imwheel for more information. Hence, run it with

imwheel -b 45

Some versions of imwheel (e.g. on Ubuntu 14.04) require a different syntax. If the output of imwheel --version is imwheel 1.0.0pre12 by -=<Long Island Man>=- <[email protected]>, then use the following syntax:

imwheel -b "4 5"
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    -b, --buttons button-spec The button-spec must be surrounded by quotes. Each button number must be separated by a space.
    – Waldemar Wosiński
    Commented Dec 13, 2014 at 19:07
  • @WaldemarWosiński Is that from the man page? My version doesn't have that text, and this command works perfectly fine. I'm running 1.0.0pre12, which was released 10 years ago.
    – Sparhawk
    Commented Dec 13, 2014 at 20:54
  • Copied from ubuntu man page. Tested.
    – Waldemar Wosiński
    Commented Dec 13, 2014 at 23:02
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    So the actual command is imwheel -b "4 5" for the lazy.
    – Rotsiser Mho
    Commented Sep 10, 2015 at 19:01
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    Actually, imwheel version imwheel 1.0.0pre12 requires to be -b "45"
    – Anwar
    Commented Aug 31, 2020 at 14:10
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I noticed everytime --kill or --buttons or -c is launched, there is a competing instance already running.

Try single line --kill and --buttons:

sudo imwheel --kill --buttons "4 5"

or

sudo imwheel -k -b "4 5"
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  • Brilliant idea to kill the current process
    – Jamie Hutber
    Commented Jan 2, 2021 at 12:18

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