Saturday, September 16, 2017

Adding Ctrl-Shift-Tab and Ctrl-Tab to Logitech Mouse buttons in Ubuntu

What was very helpful was setting up Ubuntu 16.10 to allow the "back" and "forward" buttons on my wireless Logitech mouse to map to Ctrl-Shift-Tab and Ctrl-Tab respectively, to more closely mimic a better workflow for navigating through massive web tabs.

1) Install needed libs in Ubuntu 16.10:
$ sudo apt-get install -y xbindkeys xautomation xev

2) Create xbindkeys rc file if not already created:
$ xbindkeys --defaults > ~/.xbindkeysrc

3) Append this to ~/.xbindkeysrc:
4) Re-run xbindkeys
$ kill $(ps aux | grep xbindkeys$ | awk '{print$2}');  xbindkeys


Information originally sourced from these links:
https://linux.die.net/man/1/xte
https://askubuntu.com/questions/152297/how-to-configure-extra-buttons-in-logitech-mouse

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