#mouse-extrabuttons as super button?

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rain crane
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my os keeps just reimplenting weird keybinds like randomly allowing me to zoom randomly not, and now all my extrabuttons forceopen the menu like a super button. i cant find any property that just thought of enabling

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dont ghost this post again i beg you

lunar mango
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Aight, so, what keyboard do you have?

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It may be detecting the wrong keyboard layout

rain crane
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this bug just appeared randomly

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rain crane
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idk i keep having issues with xfce like freezing taskbar or crashes but i cant find any solution

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rain crane
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what does uptime mean

lunar mango
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How long it has been since it has fully powered off

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you can find it by running

rain crane
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i dont have any kind of hibernation it might be on since 6 hours

lunar mango
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neofetch in the terminal, and if it isn't installed install it with sudo apt install neofetch

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rain crane
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6 hours 41 minutes

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hmmm

rain crane
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a small sidenote this kinda fixed while i removed compositor and restarted. but i cant work with that

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on some apps it is unavoidable like blender or steam

lunar mango
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Have you tried un-plugging the mouse, holding the power switch to turn off the system, and plugging in the mouse, and then powering back on?

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rain crane
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rain crane
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how, i just know the one command to disable it

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rain crane
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xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/use_compositing -s false

lunar mango
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Please re enable it, just run the same command but with "true" instead of "false" then you should be able to go into the keyboard application to disable to super key shortcut for your mouse buttons.

rain crane
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the extrakeys arent registerd but they still trigger super button

lunar mango
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I don't know what to say then' You'll have to wait for some other soul to come along and help, shouldn' be to long

rain crane
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if you don't want that at all, check Window management tweaks in settings and disable that function

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should be near "compositor" or desktop effects

rain crane
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perhaps one of your mouse buttons is acting as an ALT key of the keyboard, and that would certainly do it

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as in, you're intending to scroll down in a document or page, and your thumb or something touches that other button, (thus engaging ALT) and then the whole desktop zooms

rain crane
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ill repeat. if i press any extrabuttoms it does just open the menu

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you mean the "start menu" like Windows has?

rain crane
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whisky i think its called

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and it does that reliably every time?

rain crane
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it happens everytime i press the extrabuttons

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even if i focus any program

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so that means those buttons are bound to being the "Win" key , also known as the "Super" key

rain crane
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yes superkey

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not sure how to unbind them.

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perhaps with a flatpak app called Piper

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which needs some additional library called libratbag to be installed, as well as running in background

rain crane
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but it cant be that this just appeared before it didnt trigger super

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or, I've heard another mouse app called Solaris

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as well as apt list -i linux-image*

rain crane
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linux-image-5.15.0-160-generic/jammy-updates,jammy-security,now 5.15.0-160.170 amd64 [installed]
linux-image-generic-5.15/now 5.15.0.160.156 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 5.15.0.164.159]

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inxi -r

rain crane
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Repos:
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
1: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft-prod.list
1: deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf] https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/22.04/prod jammy main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com zara main upstream import backport
2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ noble-security main restricted universe multiverse
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.sources
1: deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq-noble.sources
1: deb [arch=amd64 i386] https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu noble main

Repository - Linux Mint

Linux Mint is an elegant, easy to use, up to date and comfortable desktop operating system.

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i take it u did a whole OS upgrade

rain crane
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i did a what?

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u upgraded the whole OS from Mint 20 or 21

rain crane
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i dont remember really i had noble first switched to jammy for compatibility and then back to noble

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well u gotta get rid of those jammy repos or all hell will break loose

rain crane
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ok how

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open Software Sources, and remove the 'other repositories'

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the ones that refer to jammy

rain crane
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rain crane
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found the jammy one from "microsoft"

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i know. i listed it there

rain crane
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so just remove the mark and update

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perhaps u had installed skype or something

rain crane
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when u were on jammy repos

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yeah remove and then it'll prompt before u close the window to refresh the catalog

rain crane
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updating cache

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I would then go to update manager, and run and install any updates.

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then reboot.

rain crane
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thats alot of updates

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if still issues, go bak to update manager, click View> go into kernels. install a 6.1 or 6.8 kernel

rain crane
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well i downgraded to 5.15 for drivers

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ah

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some old nvidia card?

rain crane
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exactly

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didnt knew that when switching to linux : (

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aight. well i hope the updates and removing the other repos helps the mouse issue after reboot.

rain crane
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frikkin' flatpaks

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reboot

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force reboot

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then untick that crap from the update manager re: flatpaks

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also change ur mirrors from Software Sources to some other if it's being slow

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rain crane
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cuz the updates didnt finish

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do ctrl-alt-T

rain crane
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from terminal which should appear, do mintupdate

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what's it say?

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does it bring up the Update Manager window?

rain crane
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yes

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some updates are there

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untick the flatpak stuff from its SETTINGS

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then run whatever the update manager proposes

rain crane
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its still around 100kb i already changed flags

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can also add another 5.15 kernel if any of that are presented in the Update manager's "View" menu, kernels

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either one a step newer or some steps older

rain crane
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im on the newest 5.15

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show a pic of the 5.15 series ur looking at

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alt+printscr

rain crane
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ok try this. , one sec

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df -h

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does it show efivars?

rain crane
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/boot/efi

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not explicit efivars

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:/

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show inxi -M result plz

rain crane
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a dang my pc specs

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oh k. no UEFI system

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well anyway, do u see a GRUB menu when u boot up?

rain crane
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it allows me to go uefi tho

rain crane
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ok from grub menu: Mint advanced: 5.15 -160

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not recov. mode

rain crane
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aight

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Nothing called advanced

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u already entered in the advanced screen.

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that's why ur seeing what ur seeing

rain crane
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I realised I entered 160 it was just standard mint but more buggy

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I got stuck in homescreen and couldnt leave

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what's a "homescreen" this isn't a phone or tablet

rain crane
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I meant whisky mb

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ctrl-alt-backspace on Mint and some other distros gets u out

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install some other kernel then

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and boot it

rain crane
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I have the 164 one

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or if it's too bugged out, then backup your personal files externally, and FRESH INSTALL Linux Mint 21.3 - from scratch.

rain crane
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This is the third time ill do it each time i ask for help its reinstalling mint

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I just want to remove the extrabutton keybind wth

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well if the menu's screwed and freezing....

rain crane
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That was before but not this intense

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I kept needing to go tty to fix it every 3 minutes

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did u have a saved timeshift from days or a week ago?

rain crane
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I removed it cause it kept taking like 12gb daily

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then u dont have it friggin do daily!

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do one manual one as soon as u install and evrything is performing well. and schedule a weekly and done

rain crane
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It still did tho i set monthly and it still had the big backup

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rain crane
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if u do ONE manual backup. that will always remain.

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just try fresh 21.3

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live boot that exact distro whether MATE, xfce, or cinnamon from a live stick and test the hell out of it.

rain crane
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It works with live

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of 21.3?

rain crane
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22.2

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well . up to u.

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i think all the messing around with extraneous repos n crap has messed this up.

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i stick by my recommendation

rain crane
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thanks for helping but i dont think ill reinstall stuff again

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then rollback to the one timeshift you do have

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unless u were a fool and got rid of it.

rain crane
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😖

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maybe some crazy commandline shit with xinput to manually assign null values to specifically the extraneous mouse buttons that do nothing but give u trouble