Switching side buttons on Linux Mint

I have a Razer mouse. Linux Mint seems to switch the side buttons' actions, where the button that I feel means "forward" does "back," and vice versa. I wrote a startup script to solve this problem by flipping them around.

To start, I used xev to figure out which my side buttons were. I found that they were 8 and 9.

Next, I used xinput to figure out the buttons currently set up:

12	$ xinput \| grep -i "usb optical mouse" \| sed -e "s/.id=$\S$\s./\1/" 8

So the USB optical mouse is ID 8. Next, check the button map:

12	$ xinput get-button-map 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Finally, to switch them:

1	xinput set-button-map 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 8 10 11 12 13

And it worked! Then I added the code to my ~/.profile :

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MOUSE_SW_BTNS_ID=`xinput | grep -i "usb optical mouse" | sed -e "s/.*id=\(\S*\)\s*.*/\1/"`
if [ ! -z "$MOUSE_SW_BTNS_ID" ]; then
	MOUSE_SW_BTNS_MAP=`xinput get-button-map $MOUSE_SW_BTNS_ID`
	MOUSE_SW_BTNS_CMP="1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "
	if [ "$MOUSE_SW_BTNS_MAP" = "$MOUSE_SW_BTNS_CMP" ]; then
		MOUSE_SW_BTNS_SET="1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 8 10 11 12 13"
		xinput set-button-map $MOUSE_SW_BTNS_ID $MOUSE_SW_BTNS_SET
	fi
fi

Ches Koblents