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(Get the code!)
(In reply to miranda from comment #54)
> Wouldn't binding a keyboard button to a mouse button, followed by an action
> to a keyboard button, be considered a workaround? The original bug report
> seems fairly clear.
Yes, that works. It would still be a good thing if mouse buttons could be assigned directly, so you can avoid having to assign a key (combination) to that button. Personally, I think that it should not matter to the DE whether a button event was triggered by a mouse button and key presse or even a button press by a game controller.
The current implementation works sufficiently to cover the needs of most, I guess, but there are limitations, e.g.:
- Combining Modifiers with mouse buttons might not work, as most of the time you'd want to assign a key combination to the mouse button and not a single key stroke. e.g. you assign Meta+F1 to button 7, but then you can't use Meta+button 7 for other things.
- The configuration is not device-specific. There surely are arguments pro and con this, but if you are using multiple mice, it might not make sense to assign button 7 to the same key combination on both devices, since they could be located at completely different positions
- Currently, it'll only search the first level for a key, which can lead to unwanted effects, if you're not using a standard layout or trying to access positions that are not on the first level on the standard layout. I created a bug for this, but it's not been fixed yet.
(In reply to David Redondo from comment #50)
> As this has been mentioned you can now bind arbitrary key combinations to
> extra mouse buttons. I just tested it and it works fine for (bound
> printscreen to a side button for testing). So I am closing this as resolved.
> If it doesnt work for people (as it seems to not do for Bernd) please file a
> new bug
I experienced two bugs with this, one of which has been fixed, but the other one is still open.
Nevertheless, I can use it, working around the limitations of the current system, and have been doing so for more than half a year now on Wayland exclusively without using imwheel or similar.