how to uncheck mouse keys on mac keyboard command

#HOW TO UNCHECK MOUSE KEYS ON MAC KEYBOARD COMMAND HOW TO#
#HOW TO UNCHECK MOUSE KEYS ON MAC KEYBOARD COMMAND INSTALL#
#HOW TO UNCHECK MOUSE KEYS ON MAC KEYBOARD COMMAND SERIAL#
#HOW TO UNCHECK MOUSE KEYS ON MAC KEYBOARD COMMAND CODE#

xbindkeysrc is a hidden file in your home directory so you'll need to press Ctrl + h (to show hidden files and folders) to see it in your file manager. Next, open ~/.xbindkeysrc with your favorite text editor. You may either create an empty ~/.xbindkeysrc file, or generate a sample configuration file using this command: Create the xbindkeys configuration (in ~/.xbindkeysrc).

#HOW TO UNCHECK MOUSE KEYS ON MAC KEYBOARD COMMAND HOW TO#

Mouse-related article: How To Disable Mouse Acceleration In Ubuntu 18.04 Or 19.10 (Gnome).Ĥ. In case you want to remap multimedia keys to mouse buttons, you can get a list of such keyboard symbols by visiting this link. Neither xed nor xbindkeys -k will show the keycodes / keyboard symbols for multimedia keys. if you have Caps_Lock or Num_Lock on, etc., so I personally prefer to use xev for this task. It's worth noting that xbindkeys can be used grab the keycodes too ( xbindkeys -k), but it reads all active keys so it can be confusing in some cases, e.g. Control_L for left control key) since they are easier to read. In this article I'll use the key name (e.g. for the first key above you can use either 37, 0xffe3, or Control_L.

Note down the keycode, keysim or name of the key. State 0x10, keycode 111 (keysym 0xff52, Up), same_screen YES, State 0x10, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES,

#HOW TO UNCHECK MOUSE KEYS ON MAC KEYBOARD COMMAND SERIAL#

KeyPress event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x2200001, State 0x10, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES, KeyPress event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x2200001, In my case, this is the output of xev for these 3 key presses (the first one is for Control_L or left Control key, the second for Alt_L or left Alt, and the third is for Up: Next, press the keys on your keyboard that you want to remap to your mouse, each at a time, and watch the xev command output in the terminal.įor example if you want to bind Ctrl + Alt + Up to a mouse button, press Ctrl, then Alt and finally Up. Once again, a small window will pop up that you need to focus. Open a terminal and run this command (via AskUbuntu): Grab the keystrokes that we'll later send using a mouse button (skip if you want to bind a command / script / program to a mouse button)

#HOW TO UNCHECK MOUSE KEYS ON MAC KEYBOARD COMMAND CODE#

In this example, the button code we'll need later is 8.ģ. After pressing the button you should see its code in the terminal where you ran xev, e.g.: Now press the mouse button for which you want to grab the code. Next, focus the small window that pops up and watch the terminal output. To get the mouse button code(s), run this command:

#HOW TO UNCHECK MOUSE KEYS ON MAC KEYBOARD COMMAND INSTALL#

On other Linux distributions you'll have to search in the repositories for xdotool, xev and xbindkeys and install them.

Arch Linux or Manjaro: sudo pacman -S xbindkeys xorg-xev xdotool.

openSUSE: sudo zypper install xbindkeys xev xdotool.

Fedora: sudo dnf install xbindkeys xorg-x11-utils xdotool.

Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pop!_OS, Elementary OS and other Debian or Ubuntu based Linux distributions: sudo apt install xbindkeys x11-utils xdotool.

In case you don't need to bind mouse buttons to keyboard keys, and all you want to bind to the mouse buttons are programs, commands or scripts, you can skip the installation of xdotool.

xdotool: command-line X11 automation tool that lets you programmatically (or manually) simulate keyboard input and mouse activity (and more).

xev: a tool that prints contents of X events.

xbindkeys: a program that grab keys and mouse button events in X and starts associated shell command.

To bind the mouse buttons to key combinations we'll use the following tools: This will only work if you use X11 (it does not work on Wayland) because the tools we'll use for this only support X11. If you have a mouse with extra buttons, you can bind those buttons to perform a key combination, run a program, command or script.

How to uncheck mouse keys on mac keyboard command