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====== Thunar - Mouse Button Magic ======

==== Simulation of Horizontal Scrolling(Trackball) ====


Its possible to I emulate horizontal scrolling by remapping the scroll direction via xbindkeys:

  # ~/.xbindkeysrc
  "xdotool click 6"
    b:4

  "xdotool click 7"
    b:5
    
==== Reassign mouse buttons ====

- use xev in order to see which buttons your mouse has
- use xmodmap to map them in a different way:

Create a fresh modmap:

  cd 
  xmodmap -pke > .Xmodmap
  
Add mouse button mapping. E.g:

  pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
  
Now you can change buttons like that:

  pointer = 1 8 3 4 5 6 7 2 9 10
  
Activate new mapping like that:

  xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap


==== Simulate Keyboard buttons ====

For an X11 session that can be done via "xdotool". E.g. for the special-key "Back":

  sleep 2;xdotool key 0x1008ff26

The Hex codes of keys can be looked up here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/blob/main/gdk/gdkkeysyms.h

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