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## Detecting buttons

This section describes how you can detect the buttons on your mouse.

You must detect your mouse buttons with the button detection wizard in order to define functionality for them.

### Quick guide:

1. Press the Press to start button detection button.

2. Press a single mouse button until the progress bar is full.

3. Give the button a name.

4. Press the Add button to save the button.

5. Repeat until you have detected all your buttons.

6. Press OK to finish.

### In depth guide:

To start the button detection, press the Press to start button detection button. Now, press a single button until the detection progress bar is full.

btnx-config button detection in progress

The status should change to "Button detected!" and the "Button name" entry should be enabled. Enter a name for that button. It doesn't matter what you name the button. It is only for your convenience so you can easily identify what button you are editing later.

btnx-config button detection complete

Once you have entered a name for the detected button, press Add to save that button. You can now press Press to start button detection to detect another button. Detect all your mouse buttons, or at least the ones you want btnx to handle.

When you are done detecting your buttons, press OK to finish detection and save all detection information.

You can press Cancel to undo all changes and exit the wizard.

If you ran into trouble during the button detection, refer to the Troubleshooting section.

If you get the "Button detection problem" error window as seen below, refer to the "Button detection problem" section in Troubleshooting.

btnx-config button detection problem

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