Bind mouse buttons

[perdakovich]

Add an ability to bind mouse side buttons (button8, button9 and more) in the Keyboard -> Shortcuts settings.

Currently I solve it by running sxhkd with a config like that:

super + button8
	xdotool set_desktop --relative -- -1

super + button9
	xdotool set_desktop --relative -- 1

[SpencerLommel]

So are mouse side buttons 1-7 available and just not 8 and 9? I don't have a mouse with that many buttons but I could look into fixing this!

[perdakovich]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Sxhkd

Mouse hotkeys can be defined by using one of the following special keysym names: button1, button2, button3, ..., button24.

For example, button1 is LMB and button2 is RMB, the side buttons for me are button8 and button9.
Other buttons I don't know.
Perhaps it differs from device to device, no clue

[perdakovich]

So are mouse side buttons 1-7 available and just not 8 and 9?

You can't bind any mouse button at all in Cinnamon

[SpencerLommel]

@Goosegit11 I was looking into ways this could be implemented and I think in the Keyboard section would probably be the best

Like here you could assign a mouse button as a "keyboard" binding.

I haven't really looked into mouse button bindings much but what do you think of this idea? would there be any missing functionality if it was implemented this way?

[perdakovich]

This is exactly what I am proposing

[claudiux]

Parts of sound150@claudiux applet, if that can help:

const Applet = imports.ui.applet;
const Cinnamon = imports.gi.Cinnamon;
const Clutter = imports.gi.Clutter;

    _onButtonPressEvent(actor, event) {
        let buttonId = event.get_button();
        let modifiers = Cinnamon.get_event_state(event);
        let shiftPressed = (modifiers & Clutter.ModifierType.SHIFT_MASK);
        let ctrlPressed = (modifiers & Clutter.ModifierType.CONTROL_MASK);

        // 
        if (buttonId === 2) { // middle-click
            if (shiftPressed || ctrlPressed) {
                // Here your code
            } else {
                // Here your code
            }
        } else if (buttonId === 8) { // on mouse button 4 (8 by X11 numbering)
            // Here your code
        } else if (buttonId === 9) { // on mouse button 5 (9 by X11 numbering)
           // Here your code
        } else {
            return Applet.Applet.prototype._onButtonPressEvent.call(this, actor, event);
        }
        return Clutter.EVENT_STOP;
    }

[SpencerLommel]

I started working on this yesterday and actually got it working! I'm just cleaning up my implementation and organizing it a bit before I make a PR.

Also another note, the Keyboard applet and the shortcut logic is actually handled in teh cinnamon repo instead of this cinnamon-desktop one. Here is a link to the file for the Keyboard Applet

I will be opening an issue there to track my progress and I'll put a link to it here just so everything stays in the correct place

[SpencerLommel]

Here is the issue opened in the correct spot! linuxmint/cinnamon#12840

@claudiux I'm not sure if you can close issues, but this one could probably be closed with a message to check the other issue in the correct place.

[perdakovich]

looking forward to try it out :-)