Can we map 'events' to specific mouse controls?
Posted: Thu 28 May 2020, 21:25
Evening, all.
Now then, boys & girls; got a bit of a 'poser' for y'all.
Uncle Mike's treated himself to yet another mouse. (God, not another one....) Yes, another one.
This one is from a relative newcomer to this market, a Taiwanese company called VicTsing. Although I don't have especially large hands - distinctly average, in fact - I do like a large, chunky mouse.....and this is something VicTsing specialise in.
This is a Bluetooth-enabled/2.4 GHz wireless model, capable of controlling 3 devices at a time; one via standard dongle, + 2 via built-in Bluetooth.....switchable via a control underneath. Anyways; I'm getting away from the object of this post.
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This particular model has a 'thumb-wheel', for horizontal scrolling, OK? VicTsing say it only works in Macs; sure enough, OOTB, it does nothing in Linux (at least, not in Sailor's Slacko 571 're-spin', although the kernel I'm using may be too old to recognise it). However; I bought this because it's a good alternative to the Logitech MX Master 3, which costs around a ton....and I am not spending that much on a mouse.
There's enough web-sites around with wider-than-average pages that horizontal scrolling becomes tedious after a while. (Hell, it even happens here on the Forum, when somebody posts from a monster huge display, and for some reason the Forum software can't translate that to smaller screens...)
Anyways:-
In the Chromium-based browsers, horizontal (or "sideways") scrolling can be achieved, relatively easily, by holding Shift down while using your scroll-wheel. What I'm wondering is how to find out the "access" to the mouse's thumb-wheel, and to achieve the objective permanently by "mapping" the Shift+scroll command to it. Obviously, this would have to be the standard 'scroll' command, but with a 'modifier'.....or so I'm guessing.
Is it even possible? Is it 'do-able'? Any & all sensible suggestions will be much appreciated, as always.
TIA!
Mike.
Now then, boys & girls; got a bit of a 'poser' for y'all.
Uncle Mike's treated himself to yet another mouse. (God, not another one....) Yes, another one.
This one is from a relative newcomer to this market, a Taiwanese company called VicTsing. Although I don't have especially large hands - distinctly average, in fact - I do like a large, chunky mouse.....and this is something VicTsing specialise in.
This is a Bluetooth-enabled/2.4 GHz wireless model, capable of controlling 3 devices at a time; one via standard dongle, + 2 via built-in Bluetooth.....switchable via a control underneath. Anyways; I'm getting away from the object of this post.
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This particular model has a 'thumb-wheel', for horizontal scrolling, OK? VicTsing say it only works in Macs; sure enough, OOTB, it does nothing in Linux (at least, not in Sailor's Slacko 571 're-spin', although the kernel I'm using may be too old to recognise it). However; I bought this because it's a good alternative to the Logitech MX Master 3, which costs around a ton....and I am not spending that much on a mouse.
There's enough web-sites around with wider-than-average pages that horizontal scrolling becomes tedious after a while. (Hell, it even happens here on the Forum, when somebody posts from a monster huge display, and for some reason the Forum software can't translate that to smaller screens...)
Anyways:-
In the Chromium-based browsers, horizontal (or "sideways") scrolling can be achieved, relatively easily, by holding Shift down while using your scroll-wheel. What I'm wondering is how to find out the "access" to the mouse's thumb-wheel, and to achieve the objective permanently by "mapping" the Shift+scroll command to it. Obviously, this would have to be the standard 'scroll' command, but with a 'modifier'.....or so I'm guessing.
Is it even possible? Is it 'do-able'? Any & all sensible suggestions will be much appreciated, as always.
TIA!
Mike.