Comments on: Mouse shortcuts with xbindkeys

By: 33kg

33kg — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:34:30 +0000

@David: I quite like the fact I didn’t have to install xbindkeys-config and I’m pretty used to editing configuration files (I’m using arch linux). GUI configuration tools are sometimes limiting.
Also, there is no such thing as a wrong mentality.

By: Hans

Hans — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 08:29:08 +0000

@drman, Dmitry and alex:

Thank you for your comments!

By: alex

alex — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 14:25:27 +0000

It works perfectly, thank you

By: Dmitry

Dmitry — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:45:02 +0000

A very useful article. I was using xvkdb instead of xte for quite a while and experienced occasional glitches. Sometimes the assigned key combination was generated multiple times on a single mouse button press: a single wheel tilt switched through several desktops (instead of one), mouse button with Ctrl+W assigned to it closed multiple tabs in Firefox etc. Mostly occured when the overall CPU load was heavy. Switching to xte has solved the problem so far. Using KDE 4.5.2 with desktop effects enabled.

By: drman

drman — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:39:41 +0000

Many Thanks!!!
Hopeful and clear!!!

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[...] calls to achieve this, so instead I’ll use a tool called xte. You can read more about xte in this post under “Emulate key presses”. All you really need to do now is to install xte, which is [...]

By: Hans

Hans — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:09:05 +0000

Thank you Rahul. I don’t want to add too much to the guide, but I’ve included a link to your comment in the main post.

Update Jan 18, 2011: Added link to comment about using xte to simulate mouse clicks.

By: Rahul

Rahul — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:16:11 +0000

xte can also be used to simulate mouse clicks. Below is an example.

“xte ‘mouseclick 1′ ‘keydown Control_L’ ‘key v’ ‘keyup Control_L’ ‘key F2′”
b:2 + Release

I use this configuration when I use Openoffice calc. What it does is that when you do a middle click, it will evaluate to a left click (for selecting the cell under the cursor) followed by Ctrl+V (for pasting) followed by F2 (for editing the cell).

Combination of xbindkeys+xte is really useful.

Hans you could perhaps consider adding this example to your main post.

By: Rahul

Rahul — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 21:57:22 +0000

Really useful information and well written post. Thanks.

By: Hans

Hans — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:54:36 +0000

Thank you for your kind words Balden, and for the tip about dbus-monitor. I’ve added a small comment about it in the main text.

Update Oct 12, 2010: Added comment about using dbus-monitor to find D-Bus calls.