Added the possibility to switch between spaces and use the shift key to invert behavior #82
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- Added a new option to use the mouse buttons to switch between spaces instead of only emulating swype gestures - Added a new option to use the shift key to invert the behavior. If this option is enabled and shift is pressed the mouse buttons function switches to either back/forth (swapping with two fingers) or swapping between spaces
This was referenced Feb 17, 2024
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Thanks for making Sensible Side Buttons open-source! I think it is important to be able to inspect the code of an app that has access and can modify user inputs.
I tend to use the side buttons to swap between macOS spaces rather than back and forth.
Other tools I tried to customize this behavior are either closed source or buggy (Logitech options, Karabiner Elements).
I added this functionality to your app. The default behavior stays the same as before (emulating swap gestures), but now if people want can re-map the mouse side buttons to swap between spaces. I also added the possibility to press the keyboard "shift key" to dynamically change the behavior back to the two-finger swype. The menu looks like this with my PR:
Anyway, I hope this can be useful to other people as well :)
How it works
The new option for switching spaces works by sending a keyboard event when the mouse side buttons are pressed ("ctrl + arrow right/left"). I tried to also emulate the three-finger gestures to achieve the same, but emulating key presses was easier to implement -- so I went with that.
The "shift" key detection works by monitoring the shift mask flag state of the mouse button event (so the app does not need to monitor for new events).