X mouse button control linux

X-Mouse Button Control is a free tool for Windows that allows you to re-configure and expand the capabilities of your mouse.

Download:

Please be aware that X-Mouse Button Control is a hobby project.
It is not affiliated with any mouse or trackball device manufacturer.
While I can not guarantee to provide any level of support, I try my best, free time permitting!

Overview:

X-Mouse Button Control (XMBC) allows you to create application and window specific profiles. This in turn, allows you to re-configure your mouse behaviour for individual applications or windows. For each profile you can also configure up to 10 ‘layers’ of different button configurations which you can switch between using hot-keys or mouse buttons.

By default, profiles are automatically activated as the mouse moves over the defined window or application.
This has many uses, for example:

Changing the behaviour of the mouse over certain windows, such as making the mouse wheel change volume when hovering over the system tray or you-tube video.
In games which do not natively support the extended, 4th and 5th mouse buttons, you can map keys to each button.

XMBC allows you to change the behaviour of the mouse buttons and scroll wheel. The extensive list of functions available to map to your mouse buttons includes options such as:

Send any keys using the ‘simulated keystrokes’ editor
Cording (shifting/combining) buttons perform different actions
Timed button actions, that change depending how long you hold a button down for
Launch any windows application
Clipboard control (Copy/Cut/Paste)
Media control (Play/Pause/Stop/Volume/Mute etc.)
Capture screen (or active window) image to clipboard
Click-Drag [Sticky buttons/keys]
Click-Drag [Sticky buttons/keys]
Various support for specific Windows operating systems, such as Flip3D in Vista, ModernUI/Metro in Windows 8 and Virtual Desktops in Windows 10!
And much, much more!

For more information about using and configuring X-Mouse Button Control, please check out the new user guide (mirror).

X-Mouse Button Control currently supports Windows XP, 2003, 2003 R2, Vista, 2008, 2008 R2, 7, 8, 2012, 8.1, 2012 R2, 2016 & 2019 (GUI version) and 10.
It was originally designed to run natively on x64 editions of Windows but it is fully supported on 32bit editions too! The installation determines what version is required (x64 or x86) automatically during installation.

Donations:

Charity:

Over the first weekend of October 2021, I and two friends will be taking part in the 27th Club Triumph Round Britain Reliability Run.
The event, which was postponed from October 2020 due to the pandemic, once again involves a 2000 mile drive around Great Britain in a classic Triumph, all in 48 hours, pretty much non-stop except for food/fuel breaks! We are again taking Andy’s rather special Stag saloon, a car that is older than me (and probably in better condition!)
This year, the chosen charity is Motor Neurone Disease Association so perhaps, instead of donating directly to XMBC, you could sponsor us instead. The event normally runs every two years. Three years ago, XMBC users made a big difference to our fundraising so be sure to leave a comment mentioning XMBC so I can see how many donations are as a result of you good XMBC users.

Please note that donations are just that. They are not intended to be used to persuade me to add new features or provide extra support — I do as much as I can for free and don’t expect donations (although they are appreciated). You can donate with PayPal using the donate button.

You can also donate using Bitcoin using the button below:

Installation/Upgrade Information:

The installer will automatically close an existing instance of XMBC so you do not need to close or uninstall an old version before installing the latest.

X-Mouse Button Control is configured to run automatically when you log on to Windows.
This can be changed using MSConfig or the start-up tab in Task Manager on Windows 8 or later.

Requirements:

A mouse and driver that supports up to 5 buttons.
NOTE: If your mouse has 5 buttons but the 4th and 5th buttons don’t do anything in by default — then XMBC may not be for you. This software relies on the driver to send the default 4th and 5th mouse button messages which usually default to BACK/NEXT in browsers and other programs. Having said that you can still remap the standard 2 buttons and scroll wheel.
A compatible version of Microsoft Windows.
X-Mouse Button Control supports all 32bit (x86) and 64bit (x64) editions of Windows from Windows XP to 10, including Windows Server editions!

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FAQ:

I have moved all the FAQ’s to the forum to keep things consistent. Please take a look at this thread
If your question is not answered in the FAQ, please take a look through the forums and see if your question has been asked there.
If not, sign up and ask away!
Please be aware that I have had many requests for XMouse but unfortunately I have also have far less time these days to work on it.
I am primarily focusing on bugs that stop current functionality working rather than adding new functionality.

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This article describes how to configure a mouse with more than 3 buttons.

Prerequisite testing mouse input in X

This page assumes you are using Xorg (X Window System) and not Wayland.

You will first want to check what X sees from your mouse. X events can be displayed by the xev utility. A window will pop up by running

Any xevents (like moving, resizing, or clicking in) that window will then be reported to the console you launched xev from. Since you are filtering for lines which contain «button» it will show mouse click and release events with their relevant button numbers. For most mice, this will be ‘1’ for left button, ‘2’ for middle, ‘3’ for right. Other buttons will vary (e.g. for an Logitech MX Master 3 the scroll wheel is 4 & 5, thumb wheel is 6 & 7, the thumb-tip button is 9, and the inner-thumb button is 8).

This corresponds to a left mouse click and release followed by a thumb-tip click and release.

You can use xev to confirm your mouse button numbers and to confirm that X is being notified of mouse clicks.

Rebinding mouse and keyboard functions

This section covers details of using various tools to rearrange mouse and keyboard functions.

General purpose

Key Mapper

key-mapper-git AUR is a GUI tool with a simple interface to remap your mouse and or keyboard keys. [1] Usage explained.

Binding mouse buttons to keyboard functions

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xte from xautomation comes handy when we want to bind keyboard buttons to mouse.

Here is example

/.xbindkeysrc which binds Shift_R to mouse button 3 («right click»):

Binding keyboard keys to mouse buttons

xvkbd and xbindkeys

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Let us say we want to bind some mouse buttons to keyboard ones. The problem we will encounter is that we do not know how to emulate a key press. Here comes in handy xvkbd AUR . We can use it along with xbindkeys .

To restart xbindkeys type:

Here is example

If you want to check your mouse buttons number use xev. Do not forget to type capital letters in xvkbd -text usage and to escape opening bracket with \ or you get simply [Shift] written.

Here is an example for xbindkeys to enable x selection paste(third click pasting), you need both xsel and xvkbd installed, What it does it executes that command whenever button 13 of the mouse is pressed (in

This is an example for a keybinding for Meta+M:

evrouter

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Some programs, especially games, use different methods of reading input, so another program is needed: evrouter AUR .

For the evrouter command to be able to read the input devices, it will have to be run in the input group (or as root). This can be achieved by adding yourself to that group:

Now we can use the —dump option to display what the button to be changed is called:

Now press the buttons that you wish to change:

The line that ends with «fill this in!» can be copied into the config file which by default is

/.evrouterrc . For example, using the X11 key event emulator built into evrouter:

The ‘event1’ was changed to ‘event*’ in case udev gives it a different device number at boot. The ‘none’ was changed to ‘any’ so that the rule works even if any modifier keys are pressed when the button is pressed. To determine the key codes (in brackets) you can use

See evrouter(1) for a full explanation of the fields.

After setting up the config file, run it as a daemon:

To stop the daemon:

evdev Xorg.conf setup

This section explains setting up mice with more than 3 buttons using evdev . There are other ways to achieve this, but some of the notes and tools described here may be useful for people with other needs. Some parts may help getting extra mouse buttons working using other drivers as well.

We will be using the evdev driver for Xorg. EVentDEVice is an advanced driver for USB input devices which offers much greater power over the standard Xorg mouse driver. It is also more «direct» than the mouse driver, allowing lower latency and less translation issues.

Note that evdev is both a kernel module and an Xorg input driver. All the Arch kernels come with the evdev module.

With the Xorg 11R7.0 or newer, only the following changes to /etc/X11/xorg.conf need to be made.

Finding the mouse name

The first step is to find the name of the mouse / mice. To do this, execute the following command:

This should output something like this:

Or this if you have more than one mouse:

The mouse is the one that has the Handlers=mouse0 , so the name of the device is Logitech USB Gaming Mouse .

Copy the name of the device, and open up /etc/X11/xorg.conf .

Configuring Xorg

Now, we need an entry in xorg.conf that tells X how to use this mouse. It should look something like this:

Replace the Name option with the name you copied from above. You may also omit the CorePointer option if you use multiple mice or experience errors when attempting to load Xorg. The other options are all basic mouse configurations for evdev and should work with most mice.

Next, we need to tell X to use the mouse, so look in xorg.conf for ServerLayout .

Modify the ServerLayout section to use «Evdev Mouse» as the device. When you are done, it should look something like this:

The only thing you should change in the layout is the InputDevice line that refers to your mouse.

That should be all that is required.

This is for Logitech G5 Mouse users. I have not tested this for other mice, but if you do not add this, your mouse MAY not work. If you do not need to add this, then do not.

in the InputDevice section or else the mouse will not be picked up.

[#] = The number you got from:

With the above method, your mouse might not to work after reboot (event number changes). To fix this, you can use symlinks in /dev/input/by-id . For example:

To find the appropriate id, do:

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With a Desktop type keyboard-mouse, this does not work because there is only one USB attachment and /dev/input/by-id contains only the keyboard. In this case, we can create a udev rule to get a consistent link. The following rules create the link /dev/input/usbmouse which points on the correct event entry:

You can call it z10_usb_mouse.rules and put it in /etc/udev/rules.d

The cryptic value to use for SYSFS(modalias) can be gotten in the following way:

enter the command cat /proc/bus/input/devices

You will find the keyboard and the mouse and see event4 is the mouse in this case:

So I enter the following command (adapt event # to your particular case):

grab the ATTRS which becomes with usb: to complete «SYSFS== » entry

And finally, use usbmouse as the Device Option in xorg.conf :

evdev Xorg — Post configuration

Google Chrome

It works. Horizontal scroll works out of the box — push the scroll wheel left or right. Thumb buttons also work as next/previous page.

Opera

It works. Note: buttons can be mapped to functions easily in Preferences > Advanced > Shortcuts > Mouse set-up . For example, to bind button 8 to back:

Navigate to mouse set-up and expand the Application drop-down
In the input column, type: Button 8
In the actions column, type: Back

Firefox

Horizontal scroll

To get back and forward enabled, instead of scroll left/right, change the following settings in about:config :

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Thumb buttons — forward and back

To do this we need to map keystrokes to the desired mouse buttons and install xvkbd AUR and xbindkeys .

In most modern applications which use back/forward features, XF86Back is mapped to back and XF86Forward is mapped to forward by default. On most MX mice the thumb buttons resolve to 8 & 9. If your mouse is different, check button numbers using xev and replace the numbers used in the example (b:8 & b:9).

So if you have an MX mouse you would create the file

Now to test. Run the following command and if it works as expected remember to add xbindkeys to .xinitrc or somewhere where it will be executed each time X starts. Also, this should work with Epiphany and Konqueror without any additional configuration or use of IMWheel.

Since xvkbd is not available from the official repositories here is another example using xte from the xautomation package

The above info and more help may be found in the MX1000 Buttons wiki.

xmodmap tweaking

It may prove to be more comfortable for some to change the ordering of button codes, as the case may be for left-handed people. Depending on the environment you use, the button codes can be configured in two different ways. If you use .xinitrc to load X, then add this to .xinitrc (change for the number of buttons you have):

Note that buttons 4 and 5 must go on the end or else your scroll wheel will not work.

If you use GDM/XDM/KDM instead of .xinitrc , then create the file

/.Xmodmap and add this to it (change for the number of buttons you have):

/.Xmodmap file if it is present, whereas startx does not. Another solution would be to add this to your

/.Xmodmap . This would allow you to use *DM and startx while only having to edit

/.Xmodmap when you need to make changes.

You may have to play with these numbers a bit to get your desired behavior. Some mice use buttons 6 and 7 for the scroll wheel, in which case those buttons would have to be the last numbers. Keep playing with it until it works!

xinput tweaking

For debugging purposes xinput can be used as it is able to change the button map on the fly in userspace. The following line corrects the button mapping (there have been reported cases with Logitech M505/B605 mice and possibly others) so the received events are mapped correctly:

Device-specific configuration

Logitech G600

It is known that in xorg-server 1.18.0-3 side buttons of G600 are not recognized as a separate keyboard device, but another mouse which causes strange (moving mouse cursor to an edge of screen when one of main mouse buttons are clicked) behavior. To force xorg to recognize them as a keyboard buttons, add following section to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf :

Mad Catz Mouse

Logitech M560/M545/M546

These mice are designed for Windows 8 and have non-conventional behavior: the mouse appears as a mouse and keyboard and some buttons do not emit the standard mouse button event but a combination of keyboard and mouse button presses instead. This prevents «comfortable» use of this mouse under Linux.

The appropriate driver allows the mouse to be used like an ordinary mouse:

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kernel module for M560 (already merged into kernel v4.2)
kernel module for M545/M546

See also Xbindkeys for mouse button mapping.

Logitech G5 mouse: Binding + and —

If you want to bind the buttons + and — in G5/7 mouse, which normally changes DPI, you have to use g5hack [4] released by a lomoco author.

This will change your DPI to 2000, light the 1st LED and disables DPI on-the-fly changing, so you can use it with evrouter. If you would use it frequently I suggest you to copy it to the /usr/bin directory:

If you want to bind your + and — buttons you must copy the line at the bottom (one with the comment ‘»-» button does not function anymore’ above) to the mode you will be using, like, for example, under the «case 3:» you can put it on the line with the comment ‘turn on third led’ above (deleting the old one before of course).

For the newest G5 mouse which is reported as «product 0xc049» original hack does not work. You have to simply change the #define MOUSE_G5 0xc041 to #define MOUSE_G5 0xc049 and recompile.

You can execute the g5hack tool at system start up using systemd unit. See Systemd#Writing unit files for detail.

If Arch is a guest virtual machine

If you want to support more than two or three mouse buttons, the capability will depend on your hypervisor software.

VMware workstation

For your Arch-based guest VM, add the below lines to its .vmx configuration file:

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