Since Plasma 6.4.0 I cannot go into System Settings, Mouse & Touchpad, click Mouse, select Configure Extra Buttons and assign the Control key to each of my mouses side buttons to effectively disable them. In both my production OS which is Reborn Os and a test OS BlueStar I can click Add Binding, but…

Just installed the 6.4.2 update and the issue is still there.

and the circle is complete: i’m still on plasma 5, so no side button config for me either. i just use input-remapper and probably will even after i move to plasma 6 if this isn’t fixed by then.

It’s not an on going issue as you would make it sound. Not by far. It was working in 6.0.0 through 6.4.0 and then just stopped working.

[image] TheTechieLife: Expected behavior after step 6 above to be told to press a button on my keyboard to assign it to the mouse button and it actually be assigned. Far be it for me to suggest that you try more searching… We did this last week, you’ll need to break out some text editing skil…

I have this and my side buttons are still clickable. [ButtonRebinds][Mouse] ExtraButton1=Key,Ctrl ExtraButton2=key,Ctrl [Keyboard] NumLock=0 [Mouse] X11LibInputXAccelProfileFlat=true XLbInptAccelProfileFlat=false XLbInptPointerAcceleration=1 cursorSize=48 cursorTheme=material_cursors

[image] MyUserNameIsUserName: [ButtonRebinds][Mouse] ExtraButton1=Key,Ctrl ExtraButton2=key,Ctrl Here are ‘ButtonRebinds’ for the two side buttons. Your post made no sense to me…

I don’t know what didn’t make any sense. As clearly stated my settings look correct but the side buttons were still enabled. Odd thing is now they seem to want to behave with that. I had done logoffs, reboots and still not disabled. Than for what seemed out of nowhere they finally were disabled.

[image] MyUserNameIsUserName: what didn’t make any sense What I quoted was a section that shows you seem to have tried to bind ExtraButton keys to =key,Ctrl. I have mine set to this: [ButtonRebinds][Mouse] ExtraButton1=Key,Meta+G ExtraButton2=Key,Ctrl+F10 Those keybindings actually work. I…

Again I don’t mean to be rude but there is nothing confusing about it in the least. I have been binding both side buttons to Ctrl since I got the mouse and keyboard combo, and it has always worked. When I boot into Reborn I will try what you have above.

[image] MyUserNameIsUserName: I have been binding both side buttons to Ctrl since I got the mouse and keyboard combo, Ok, something I never actually tried myself - though I did previously think about using side buttons for some Ctrl and Alt shenanigans with ‘easystroke’ when I used mouse gest…

Cannot configure mouse side buttons

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ben2talk July 4, 2025, 1:49pm 5

Far be it for me to suggest that you try more searching… We did this last week, you’ll need to break out some text editing skills

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Cannot configure mouse side buttons

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