Make button of a mouse hold on click and | Linux Mint Community🍵 | Page 1

vagrant basin Aug 14, 2024, 4:04 PM

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Hello, I have a Rival 3 and I wanted to bind button 4 to button 1, and make it so that it's pressed when I click it, and will release only on the next click. I was able to achieve this using the steelseries app on windows. I found a Linux alternative (https://flozz.github.io/rivalcfg/devices/rival3.html#mapping-special-actions) but I don't understand how to do that. I've read there that my mouse doesn't support this natively, and with the official software, it just runs some background scripts. PS: my mouse settings don't save between PCs, so I can't set it up on windows and then use on Linux. any ideas?

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Only thing I've been able to do is map button4 to button1, but it functions like a regular button currently, I can't figure out how to make it hold.

dark lake Aug 15, 2024, 9:27 PM

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Technically, you can achieve this with very low-level X11 hackery. There might be tools for it. And that is the extent of my knowledge on this.

low hinge Aug 15, 2024, 11:27 PM

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There's ckb-next but it's for corsair and rgb devices, no idea if it can be used in your case

vagrant basin Aug 17, 2024, 10:54 AM

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i found this little script on the internet, and it works exactly how i want it to be

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# Path to a temporary file that will store the state
STATE_FILE="/tmp/mouse_button_state"

# Check if the state file exists
if [ ! -f "$STATE_FILE" ]; then
    # If the file doesn't exist, create it with the state "up"
    echo "up" > "$STATE_FILE"
fi

# Read the current state
STATE=$(cat "$STATE_FILE")

# Toggle the state
if [ "$STATE" = "up" ]; then
    # If the state is "up", change to "down" and press the left mouse button
    xdotool mousedown 1
    echo "down" > "$STATE_FILE"
else
    # If the state is "down", change to "up" and release the left mouse button
    xdotool mouseup 1
    echo "up" > "$STATE_FILE"
fi