Skip to content

Configure mouse button as a combination of keyboard keys

[Apologies if this is not the most appropriate venue for this question. Suggestions as to where to post this welcome.]

I know how to map one mouse button onto one keyboard key, but how do you map one mouse button onto a combination of keyboard keys? What is the HWDB syntax? This below doesn't work: the latest 9000x assignment is the one that overrides all the previous 9000x assignments. I am thus hoping that there's a way to somehow list a combination of keyboard keys onto one 9000x line. Is that even possible?

What I am trying to achieve is to map the 90004 mouse button onto key_leftmeta + key_pagedown and the 90005 button onto key_leftmeta + key_pageup. The code below actually maps 90004 onto key_pagedown and 90005 onto key_pageup.

# 70-mouse-remap.hwdb
# Remap buttons on Logitech M585/M590 mouse:
evdev:name:Logitech M585/M590:*
  KEYBOARD_KEY_90004=key_leftmeta
  KEYBOARD_KEY_90004=key_pagedown
  KEYBOARD_KEY_90005=key_leftmeta
  KEYBOARD_KEY_90005=key_pageup

Clear Linux 38620, Wayland, kernel 6.2.7

Edited by Cristian Cocos
To upload designs, you'll need to enable LFS and have an admin enable hashed storage. More information