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jersou / mouse-actions

mouse-actions

mouse-actions execute some command from mouse events such as clicks/wheel on the side/corners of the screen, or drawing shapes. It's a mix between Easystroke and Compiz edge commands.

3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
284GitHub stars
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What it is

mouse-actions execute some command from mouse events such as clicks/wheel on the side/corners of the screen, or drawing shapes. It's a mix between Easystroke and Compiz edge commands.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by week3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2024-03-05 08:56:58 UTC to 2024-05-20 17:18:44 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

0122024-03-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 42024-03-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsApr 82024-04-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-05-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-05-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-05-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsMay 20

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Mar 42024-03-04 00:00:00 UTC2024-03-11 00:00:00 UTC101
Mar 112024-03-11 00:00:00 UTC2024-03-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 182024-03-18 00:00:00 UTC2024-03-25 00:00:00 UTC000
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Apr 12024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-04-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 82024-04-08 00:00:00 UTC2024-04-15 00:00:00 UTC000
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May 132024-05-13 00:00:00 UTC2024-05-20 00:00:00 UTC000
May 202024-05-20 00:00:00 UTC2024-05-27 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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I'm aware of mouse-actions, I have several issues[1][2][3] open. Unfortunately, mouse-actions has a terrible UI at the moment and, overall, doesn't work consistently. I'm hopeful that mouse-actions will improve in the future, but it feels like it too is abandoned, having seen no additions in over a year. As for easystroke being unmaintained, it's a simple utility that does what it says. And it has worked the same way for the last 14 years. [1] https://github.com/jersou/mouse-actions/issues/15 [2] https://github.com/jersou/mouse-actions/issues/16 [3] https://github.com/jersou/mouse-actions/issues/14
In Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for Nvidia Users
This is my main issue, I need full access to input devices and the ability to drop, alter and inject new events. On Windows I fully rely on StrokeIt, it has been a huge improvement for me which I've used for ~15 years. Linux's easystroke [0] is now deprecated (and always was mediocre) and the modern alternative "mouse-actions" [1] is not good at all. I've coded a replacement in Rust+C which works for my simple use-case but it targets X11 and it's unclear for me how I can get low level access to input devices events with Wayland. I've also read something about security getting increased in Wayland so that one does no longer have access to input stuff (unclear to me). Then the nice thing about X11 is the ability to remotely use a X11 session, which apparently isn't possible with Wayland (except for RDP or VNC which isn't what I need). [0] h
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