Hi everyone,
I have a new mouse and I don’t like the default mouse button association, so I tried swapping the thumb buttons. They were associated forward and backwards and I want it the other way around. I retrieved the button numbers from xev, created a ~/.xbindkeysrc looking as below and ran xbindkeys. The change immediately worked in Google Chrome but Nemo was very unimpressed. How is that? In the file below you will see two lines per button, one commented out and one not, I tried both versions. Both worked in Chrome and none worked in Nemo.
Also, I put the xbindkeys command in my ~/.xinitrc but it doesn’t load at startup. I attached my .xinitrc below.
I am using Manjaro with Gnome and Wayland on a desktop PC, so no additional keyboard or mouse or touchpad present.
Thanks for your time!
# Mouse Buttons
#"xte "key XF86Back""
"xte "keydown Alt_L" "key Left" "keyup Alt_L""
b:9 + release
#"xte "key XF86Forward""
"xte "keydown Alt_L" "key Right" "keyup Alt_L""
b:8 + release
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap
DEFAULT_SESSION=gnome-session
# merge in defaults and keymaps
if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi
# if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
# xmodmap $sysmodmap
# fi
if [ -f "$userresources" ]; then
xrdb -merge "$userresources"
fi
# if [ -f "$usermodmap" ]; then
# xmodmap "$usermodmap"
# fi
# start some nice programs
if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ] ; then
for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/?*.sh ; do
[ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
done
unset f
fi
get_session(){
local dbus_args=(--sh-syntax --exit-with-session)
case $1 in
awesome) dbus_args+=(awesome) ;;
bspwm) dbus_args+=(bspwm-session) ;;
budgie) dbus_args+=(budgie-desktop) ;;
cinnamon) dbus_args+=(cinnamon-session) ;;
deepin) dbus_args+=(startdde) ;;
enlightenment) dbus_args+=(enlightenment_start) ;;
fluxbox) dbus_args+=(startfluxbox) ;;
gnome) dbus_args+=(gnome-session) ;;
i3|i3wm) dbus_args+=(i3 --shmlog-size 0) ;;
jwm) dbus_args+=(jwm) ;;
kde) dbus_args+=(startplasma-x11) ;;
lxde) dbus_args+=(startlxde) ;;
lxqt) dbus_args+=(lxqt-session) ;;
mate) dbus_args+=(mate-session) ;;
xfce) dbus_args+=(xfce4-session) ;;
openbox) dbus_args+=(openbox-session) ;;
*) dbus_args+=($DEFAULT_SESSION) ;;
esac
echo "dbus-launch ${dbus_args[*]}"
}
xbindkeys &
exec $(get_session "$1")