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

Classic multi-platform Text Editor

I’ve been looking for a good classic CLI-version of a text editor that’s multi platform.

Apart from a heavily-customized version of Vim, I found this to be pretty awesome stuff:

http://triptico.com/software/mp.html

Some screenshots from the referring link above:


PS:  This is not my work, but the awesome work of Angel Ortega.  If you find this useful, please do support him and let him know!


Commands used to build on Ubuntu 14.04:

git clone https://github.com/angelortega/mp-5.x

git clone https://github.com/angelortega/mpdm

git clone https://github.com/angelortega/mpsl

sudo apt-get install libncursesw5-dev gnome-core-devel build-essential flex byacc lib ncursesw5 ncurses-dev ncurses-bin

cd mp-5.x
./config.sh --disable-gtk
make
sudo make-install