Re: Remapping mouse buttons

  • From: "Adam Krolnik" <akrolnik@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: emelfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:28:42 -0500

When you're ready, I can try it out...
Now if I can only get GTk to handle 10 buttons.



On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:50 PM, <tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:27:04 -0500
> Adam Krolnik <adam.krolnik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I've got a trackman trackball with buttons that function as forward/back
> > on Firefox.
> > Can we get some options to remap some of the button actions ? I tried to
> > add a button
> > click to the key bindings, but it wouldn't take the button click.
> >
> > For example, I'd like to move up directory off of button-2 to the back
> > button.
> > I'd also like to remove 'hide output pane' from button-2 and put in its
> > place
> > 'paste' the highlighted string into the command window (if there is a
> > command for that.)
> >
> > I also might map shift-button-2 in the output pane to file.open so I
> > could open filenames
> > quickly based on output.
> FWIW, I now have a working version of pointer-button configuration. It's
> designed to work with any number of buttons, 1/2/3-clicks and/or any
> combination of modifier keys. Minimally tested, and therefore not in svn.
>
> And as many as possible of the pane-related actions have been re-factored
> so that they can be used with generic key- or button-bindings. For example,
> what was "pane1.some-action" is now "pane.some-action 1", but the "1"
> argument is optional and if not present then the relevant pane will be
> decided at runtime. Some of the new "pane" action-names are now more
> specific like "history" or "list" (for filelist). This is a major change to
> config data, it will be necessary to abandon old config file and start
> fresh.
>
> Regards
> Tom
>
>
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Adam Krolnik

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