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RE: Feature Request: Allow mouse buttons as keys in Function key combinations

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 02:42:10 GMT

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Glad to hear it! I've added your vote to the request for mouse button support in the Function key combinations as well

Thanks!

Please add my vote as well. This would be a great addition to triggers or new function for custom scripts.

RE: Feature Request: Allow mouse buttons as keys in Function key combinations

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 20:48:37 GMT

Glad to hear it! I've added your vote to the request for mouse button support in the Function key combinations as well

Thanks!

RE: Feature Request: Allow mouse buttons as keys in Function key combinations

Binary Fortress Software — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 15:49:25 GMT

Ahh, lastly not to want to hijack this thread (mouse controls vs titlebar functions), but I am completely in love with the titlebar rollup feature, and was very glad to hear that you have updated it in the latest version of DF (going to hunt down changelog/info on what changed in 2 mins).

But I thought I should chime in, in case other users might find it useful - with a combination of titlebar rollup, chrome themes and chrome profiles, I currently can run 4-8 different chrome user profiles (home, work1, work2, gaming, socialmedia), each with a sync'd different theme that reflects what the profile is about and is also reflected visually with a little profile icon and theme that affects the titlebar, which can still be seen when you roll up the window - allowing you to very easily manage multiple internet profiles/personas.

This not only avoids costly mistakes (clearly distinguishing between your work and home browser sessions), but also helps you manage your desktop as a whole a lot more efficiently and with hundreds of tabs open across multiple browsers, making it very easy and quick to find the tab or browser you were looking for... <3 Thank you DisplayFusion for the titlebar rollup!

RE: Feature Request: Allow mouse buttons as keys in Function key combinations

Binary Fortress Software — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 15:31:02 GMT

Firstly, I just want to say first time posting int he forums: I love DF and I love the devs - so attentive to community and you can tell they are as proud of their product as I am proud using it! Not a day or week goes by that I think to myself "I would really like to.." or "I could really save time if I..." only going to check if I could achieve it with DF and it's either already supported or can be implemented easily. I stopped installing silly shareware bits and pieces that achieve only a fraction of what DF does, and bought the pro version years ago - I haven't looked back since!

Secondly, (one of those features I only just discovered - the roll-up titlebar feature) and the reason for the post is I wanted to also request mouse support for key combinations. I can get by without it just fine, but it would really make life simpler. I am honestly surprised it is not a feature that has been requested a lot more times, and hence I registered on forums and decided to show my support/wishlist for it.

Although I simply love using key combinations to very quickly and efficiently move, resize and otherwise manage windows, I still believe there is room for mouse triggers.

The main reasons I personally see for this:

1. In Linux environments (where my background lies), it has been a standard for years to use a 'double click the title bar to roll up window. Obviously, being Linux you can configure it a million different ways, but particularly when you are using X11/Free environments a lot and then jumping to DF-powered Windows, I find myself double clicking on the titlebar out of habit which maximises unfortunately. This is a quite a specific condition (well other Linux users might sympathise) but mostly a very personal reason.

2. A lot of mouses are now coming with many more buttons that are otherwise very under-utilised (I've used the 'back' button on the browser maybe 5 times in my life so far...).

3. With a variety of programs and apps and even the desktop environment itself stealing key combinations and hotkeys, it becomes a polluted minefield of bindings. Using the mouse for windows management opens up and keeps completely separate the 'window management' style key bindings from any existing OS/app/program key binds that have nothing to do with windows management. Furthermore, a lot of the windows management functions available in DF would simply make 'more sense' and become more intuitively natural using a mouse. As Ryan said, hand's already on the mouse

Taking the titlebar examples again, for instance left-clicking the titlebar whilst holding down the winkey seems like a 'natural' way to rollup a window just like might be using right-click whilst holding down the winkey might pin it, or scrollwheel and winkey to control the transparency %, like other programs do.

They are a few simple examples - a more difficult to implement but complex example would be for instance, moving by click dragging a window having it snap to top-left corner at 50% if holding down alt at the same time (ie- the function, 'Move Window to Top-Left Corner and Size 50%') but also just as easy click-dragging a window and pressing arrow keys to relocate the monitor.

I had also been using xmousecontrols (https://github.com/joelpurra/xmouse-controls) for a while to simulate 'sloppy window tracking' as is also a very common Unix/Linux practice, particularly for the olderschool people, but I had to disable it once I started to use DF to relocate and resize windows. This was due to the fact that I usually set the window tracking delay to very low or 0ms, meaning that when a mouse cursor is over a window it instantly focuses and makes it active, which was quite annoying when moving around windows using keycombos: a window would move from one screen to another and sometimes end up with the cursor sitting on top of a different window (as the mouse cursor doesn't follow the currently active window from screen to screen) which then became active/focused and I lost control of the window I originally wanted to resize/move with keys, before I was done with it. Once again, this is a very particular case that I doubt many DF users other than Linux/Unix guys would encounter, so no big deal there,

Anyway just wanted to say THANK YOU! DisplayFusion for being so awesome, all these years!

RE: Feature Request: Allow mouse buttons as keys in Function key combinations

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 20:05:52 GMT

That's all I can ask for, thanks!

RE: Feature Request: Allow mouse buttons as keys in Function key combinations

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 18:59:32 GMT

Interesting idea! I'm not sure if it's possible, but I've added it to our feature request list. We'll let you know if we're able to implement it in a future version

Thanks!

Feature Request: Allow mouse buttons as keys in Function key combinations

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 15:50:58 GMT

Hello, I'm not sure how feasible it would be to do what I'm asking for but I'll throw it out there and see what sticks.

I've created some key combinations for simple stuff like minimizing the current window (Alt+D) and moving current window to previous/next monitor(Alt+A/Alt+S). I know it kind of goes against the logic of key combinations since mouse buttons aren't actually keys but I was thinking it would be really nice to be able to set mouse buttons as the "key" in a key combination.

So for instance, in my above example, moving a window to a previous/next monitor could be Alt+"mouse back button"/Alt+"mouse forward button". I'm not sure if these are reserved in some way in Windows or if it could potentially cause conflicts but there you go.

As easy as key combinations are, I generally already have my hand on the mouse in cases where I want to be moving monitors so allowing for a combination like that would be not only even easier, but more intuitive (to me, anyway).