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Hammerspoon config to use mouse button 3 for scrolling, remap button 4 to middle button
-- HANDLE SCROLLING WITH MOUSE BUTTON PRESSED
local scrollMouseButton = 3
local deferred = false
overrideOtherMouseDown = hs.eventtap.new({ hs.eventtap.event.types.otherMouseDown }, function(e)
-- print(hs.eventtap.event.properties['mouseEventButtonNumber'])
local mouseButton = e:getProperty(hs.eventtap.event.properties['mouseEventButtonNumber'])
if mouseButton == scrollMouseButton then
deferred = true
return true
end
-- Re-map "button 4" to button middle mouse button (for center-click-to-open-in-new-tabs)
if mouseButton == 4 then
local point = hs.mouse.getAbsolutePosition()
hs.eventtap.event.newMouseEvent(hs.eventtap.event.types['middleMouseDown'], point):post()
return true
end
end)
overrideOtherMouseUp = hs.eventtap.new({ hs.eventtap.event.types.otherMouseUp }, function(e)
-- print(hs.eventtap.event.properties['mouseEventButtonNumber'])
local mouseButton = e:getProperty(hs.eventtap.event.properties['mouseEventButtonNumber'])
-- Re-map "button 4" to button middle mouse button (for center-click-to-open-in-new-tabs)
if mouseButton == 4 then
local point = hs.mouse.getAbsolutePosition()
hs.eventtap.event.newMouseEvent(hs.eventtap.event.types['middleMouseUp'], point):post()
return true
end
end)
local oldmousepos = {}
local scrollmult = -2 -- negative multiplier makes mouse work like traditional scrollwheel
dragOtherToScroll = hs.eventtap.new({ hs.eventtap.event.types.otherMouseDragged }, function(e)
local mouseButton = e:getProperty(hs.eventtap.event.properties['mouseEventButtonNumber'])
-- print ("pressed mouse " .. mouseButton)
if scrollMouseButton == mouseButton then
-- print("scroll");
deferred = false
oldmousepos = hs.mouse.getAbsolutePosition()
local dx = e:getProperty(hs.eventtap.event.properties['mouseEventDeltaX'])
local dy = e:getProperty(hs.eventtap.event.properties['mouseEventDeltaY'])
local scroll = hs.eventtap.event.newScrollEvent({dx * scrollmult, dy * scrollmult},{},'pixel')
-- put the mouse back
hs.mouse.setAbsolutePosition(oldmousepos)
return true, {scroll}
else
return false, {}
end
end)
overrideOtherMouseDown:start()
overrideOtherMouseUp:start()
dragOtherToScroll:start()
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