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JoseExposito / touchegg

Linux multi-touch gesture recognizer
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MOUSE_CLICK is limited to first 3 buttons #636

Closed haarp closed 1 year ago

haarp commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

Mice can have more than 3 buttons. mouse8/9 for example are frequently thumb buttons used for back/forward navigation. Some mice can even have dozens of buttons. Touchegg only allows clicking 1, 2 and 3. I don't see why this should be a limitation.

Describe the solution you'd like

Allow arbitrary mouse buttons

Describe alternatives you've considered

I have tried using RUN_COMMAND with xdotool click 8, but it seems the Touchegg animation swallows the clicks generated by it (this might be a bug of its own?)

Additional context

Thanks a lot! This is a great tool and works better than the others I've tried! :)

JoseExposito commented 1 year ago

Hi, and sorry for the delay, I've been busy.

I'm not in front of the PC right now, but if I remember correctly, you can set any mouse button if you open the XML configuration.

However, using the GUI (Touché) only left, middle and right buttons are available for simplicity... And because if I add the scroll up/down buttons that would offer a terrible scrolling user experience, so I decided to keep it simple.

Try to change the number manually and let me know if that worked.

haarp commented 1 year ago

No worries :)

I'm actually editing the config file directly. I just tried this again and... it works. Weird. I don't remember what I was doing back then, but it does work now. Closing here, sorry for the false alert!