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I recently purchased a Lenovo Go wireless mouse, because I specifically wanted to avoid having to use a USB-C-to-USB-A dongle with my laptop. This mouse is one of the few mice I am aware which is using a USB-C wireless receiver instead of a traditional USB-A one, which felt kind of nice.

Now, there is only one major problem: the mouse has a particularly odd "utility button" on its left side (described in the Setup Poster mentioned on the previous link; direct link: https://download.lenovo.com/consumer/options/sp41c21213.pdf). This button makes it possible to do all kinds of things like back, forward, change volume, do special things during Teams calls, etc...

There's only a slight catch. This forces the "back" operation to use two button clicks instead of a single one. First one click on Utility button, the one click on the Left mouse button. This is, quite frankly, rather annoying since Back is something I do much more than these other operations.

Is there any way to reprogram this "utility button" to be just a normal "back" button (4th mouse button) instead? I'm guessing this might be available in the "Lenovo Go Central" (the software for this mouse) but it's Windows-only and I'm using the mouse with Linux (using the Cinnamon desktop). But if anyone has it installed and can confirm "yes, this can be used to reprogram the button like this", this would still be semi-useful information.

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  • There are utilities such as free X-Mouse Button Control, highrez.co.uk/downloads/xmousebuttoncontrol.htm, that remap mouse controls, just as AHK remaps keyboard. It may take some effort on your part to find to which button the "utility button" corresponds. Commented Mar 31 at 0:41
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    Thanks for the suggestions @KJ and DrMoishePippik (can only ping one of you unfortunately). I do have a virtualized Windows 11 installed.. I guess it could try installing the utility there to see what we can do with it, but I probably have to use some "USB passthrough" to be able to get the Lenovo Windows software to detect the mouse? Anyway, worth giving a look. I'll post back here if/when I give it a look. Commented Mar 31 at 14:13

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