Re: Catching mouse buttons in an extension

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Neil Bird <gnome fnxweb com> wrote:
>
>  I miss being able to use the mouse-wheel on a window title to control its
> shade state;  would it be possible to implement this via an extension?
>  Where ought I to look?

It's currently not possible. I wrote
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=673824 a little while ago.
It has not landed.

>  I'd need to be able to catch mouse buttons 4&5, and also know that they
> were occurring over the title bar.
>
>  I'm also currently using xbindkeys to map a thumb button on my mouse to
> trigger overview mode, so if I'm in an extension mapping mouse buttons, that
> would be useful to include as well (to save a very minor lag).
>
>
>  Is there somewhere in particular I should be looking for what sort of
> things I could do in an extension?  So far I've been scrabbling around in
> existing extensions, the GIR XML binding specs., and occasionally
> gnome-shell's source itself, but it's not optimal.
>
>  Everyone one else on the list (hello Amy!) seems to be able to perform
> small amounts of magic ...
>
> --
> [phoenix@fnx ~]# rm -f .signature
> [phoenix@fnx ~]# ls -l .signature
> ls: .signature: No such file or directory
> [phoenix@fnx ~]# exit
> _______________________________________________
> gnome-shell-list mailing list
> gnome-shell-list gnome org
> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list



-- 
  Jasper