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access denied in terminal

Asked by Ted Loehrke

I am trying to make forward and back buttons work on M/S intellimouse by editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf but keep getting "access denied". Am using Ubuntu 7.10 I am new to linux and could use some help please.

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Best Vojtěch Trefný (vojtech.trefny) said : 		#1

You have to edit as root.
So e.g. "gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf" → it will open this file in text editor gedit with root privilegies...

More about root and sudo here - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

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Ted Loehrke (tedloehrke) said : 		#2

Thanks for the reply, that allowed me to edit the file, however, no of the posted solutions worked for my intellimouse optical USB/PS2 compatible mouse. Do you have any further suggestions?

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Vojtěch Trefný (vojtech.trefny) said : 		#3

Yes, but I need to know exact type of the mouse.

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Ted Loehrke (tedloehrke) said : 		#4

It is a Microsoft Intellimouse Optical USB/PS2 compatible with five buttons, left click, rightclick scroll wheel, and forward and back thumb buttons. Cannot find model number anywhere on it.

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verb3k (verb3k) said : 		#5

The issue with your mouse is not related to the title of this question, please mark this question as "answered" and post a new one about your mouse.

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Manoj (salianmanoj007) said : 		#6

you may find the solution in this link

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=499641

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=599903

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Ted Loehrke (tedloehrke) said : 		#7

Thanks Vojtěch Trefný, that solved my question.