Xbindkeys Can't Capture Extra Mouse Buttons on Kde 5
I Am Trying to Use My Extra Mouse Buttons for Something Useful. in Xfce It Worked Flawlessly, but in Kde It Seems Xbindkeys Can't Capture the Mouse Buttons...
I am trying to use my extra mouse buttons for something useful.
In Xfce it worked flawlessly, but in KDE it seems xbindkeys can't capture the mouse buttons.
xbindkeys -n shows a warning there is a conflict and xbindkeys -k doesn't show anything when pressing any buttons on the mouse:
*** Warning ***
Please verify that there is not another program running
which captures one of the keys captured by xbindkeys.
It seems that there is a conflict, and xbindkeys can't
grab all the keys defined in its configuration file.
xev can detect the extra buttons been pressed:
KeymapNotify event, serial 40, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
keys: 4294967280 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
I have searched for help on this, but all the answers are too old and don't work anymore.
1 Answer
Found the problem!
kglobalaccel5 was conflicting with xbindkeys. I was able to run both, but I had to disable all custom shortcuts. They are on System Settings->Shortcuts->Custom Shortcuts.
The strange is there was no shortcut using the extra mouse buttons. My theory is the gestures support was not well implemented.
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