GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 662232
Improve configuration of key bindings
Last modified: 2021-07-05 14:38:43 UTC
Currently the possibilities to configure input are quite limited. While I agree that "normal" people don't need more than one keyboard shortcut for one option, there's still a lot of input events one could use for various tasks in gnome-shell. For example I'd like to bind the thumb button of my mouse to switch to overlay mode which comes in really handy for window selection. Currently I can only achieve this by using xbindkeys and a lengthy dbus call [1]. It works, but I consider it quite ugly because the mouse button has to be released while executing that call or it will block the whole action (and nothing happens at all). [1] dbus-send --session --type=method_call --dest=org.gnome.Shell /org/gnome/Shell org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set string:org.gnome.Shell string:OverviewActive variant:boolean:true
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I'll reopen, as this is about mouse button bindings, not keybindings.
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