{"id":207403,"date":"2025-12-28T07:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T07:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/207403\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T07:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T07:17:09","slug":"sdl-fixes-support-for-more-than-five-mouse-buttons-for-gaming-on-wayland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/207403\/","title":{"rendered":"SDL Fixes Support For More Than Five Mouse Buttons For Gaming On Wayland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LINUX GAMING\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/linuxgaming.webp.webp\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/><br \/>\nThe Simple DirectMedia Library that is widely-used by many cross-platform games and part of the Steam Runtime now has better support for handling more mouse button events under Wayland.<\/p>\n<p>Last week was a <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/libsdl-org\/SDL\/issues\/14681\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bug report<\/a> over supporting more mouse buttons than five. While some mice end up binding their extra mouse buttons to keyboard keys, some mice such as when configured via Libratbag+Piper can map them to higher key press input event codes. Theoretically, allowing up to 48 key press input events in total.&#13;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766906229_791_image.webp\" alt=\"Gaming mice\"\/><\/p>\n<p>That issue of handling more mouse buttons is now fixed today via <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/libsdl-org\/SDL\/commit\/9fe5c1512fb762f18c567fa4bc78b20c0c440617\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this commit<\/a> to the SDL library. Valve developer Sam Lantinga added the support for extended buttons on Wayland to properly handle this functionality with different gaming mice on Linux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Simple DirectMedia Library that is widely-used by many cross-platform games and part of the Steam Runtime now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[78437,85,46,78436,78434,78433,78440,78438,78435,78439,78432,78443,125,78441,78442],"class_list":{"0":"post-207403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-desktop-linux","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-linux-benchmarking","12":"tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","13":"tag-linux-hardware-reviews","14":"tag-linux-how-to","15":"tag-linux-performance","16":"tag-linux-server-benchmarks","17":"tag-open-source-graphics","18":"tag-phoronix","19":"tag-phoronix-test-suite","20":"tag-technology","21":"tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","22":"tag-ubuntu-hardware"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}