Continuous scrolling with mouse thumb buttons?

Question

In windows I used X-Mouse Button Control to accomplish this, but I can't find a method of doing It in linux.

My main mouse is a logitech m510 which has two thumb buttons on the side, which are buttons 8 and 9.

the closest i've gotten is by using xbindkeys and xte.

~/.xbindkeysrc:

#scroll-up-attempt
"xte 'key Up'"
    b:9 + Release

#scroll-down-attempt
"xte 'key Down'"
    b:8 + Release

But I want continuous scrolling when I press the button, not just one key movement when I press and release the button... Help?

Answer 1

Looking for the same thing (see comment). This does work, though: .xbindkeysrc:

" ~/src/but_10.sh "
b:10

and but_10.sh:

#!/bin/bash
xte 'key Up'
sleep 0.3
while [ $(xinput --query-state 9 | grep -e "button\[10\]=down") ]
do
xte 'key Up'
sleep 0.05
done

No idea why this works, while xte 'mouseclick 4' doesn't. I'd REALLY like to get it to work that way.

Answer 2

@mohkamfer Yes, if you have found a way to make that work. I'm still using the workaround i listed, using 'key Up' and 'key Down'. I would prefer to emulate the scroll wheel.