X-Mouse Button Control Alternatives for Linux

X-Mouse Button Control is not available for Linux but there are some alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Input Remapper, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to X-Mouse Button Control and six of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to X-Mouse Button Control are Easystroke, Piper, Razer Mouse Linux and OpenRazer.

X-Mouse Button Control alternatives are mainly Key Mapping Tools but may also be System Tweakers or Window Managers. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of X-Mouse Button Control.

X-Mouse Button Control

Free • Proprietary
Key Mapping Tool

X-Mouse Button Control is a Windows application to remap your mouse buttons and expand the capabilities of your mouse!

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Input Remapper
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Free • Open Source
Key Mapping Tool
Linux
12 Input Remapper alternatives
A tool to change and program the mapping of your input device buttons.
- - Input Remapper is the most popular Linux alternative to X-Mouse Button Control.
- - Input Remapper is the most popular Open Source alternative to X-Mouse Button Control.
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Input Remapper Features
Key rebinding
Mouse Button Mapping
Easystroke
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Free • Open Source
Linux
19 Easystroke alternatives
Easystroke is a gesture-recognition application for X11. Gestures or strokes are movements that you make with you mouse (or your pen, finger etc.) while holding down a specific mouse button. Easystroke will execute certain actions if it recognizes the stroke; currently...
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Mouse Gestures
Input Method
Discontinued
The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.6.0, released in March 2013, can be still downloaded from GitHub.
Piper
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Free • Open Source
Key Mapping Tool
Linux
Flatpak
26 Piper alternatives
Piper is a graphical user interface to configure gaming mice. Configuration options include changing the resolution (DPI) of the mouse, adding and removing profiles, setting LED colors and changing button behaviors.
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Adjusting DPI
Mouse Button Mapping
Gaming-focused
Razer Mouse Linux
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Free • Open Source
Linux
7 Razer Mouse Linux alternatives
Let you bind anything to any button on most peripherals that will work with xinput on linux.
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OpenRazer
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Free • Open Source
Linux
22 OpenRazer alternatives
An entirely open source driver and user-space daemon that allows you to manage your Razer peripherals on GNU/Linux.
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btnx-config
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Free • Open Source
Linux
9 btnx-config alternatives
btnx-config is a configuration tool for btnx (Button Extension). It allows the user to send keyboard combinations or execute commands with mouse buttons. btnx-config provides mouse and button detection, and an easy way to configure btnx's behavior. See .
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Comments about btnx-config as a Alternative to X-Mouse Button Control
This alternative is disputed. btnx-config is still a legitimate X-Mouse Button Control alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.
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You can only translate mouse button presses to keyboard keys, no combinations, macros and Fn keys can't be used as modifiers nor modifiers to what you click, eg: can't map alt+wheel_up to volume up.
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