Mouse App Shortcuts

Name: Mouse App Shortcuts
Author: @rebind

@rebind / mouse-app-shortcutsv0.1.5Public

Side buttons mean back and forward in browsers, undo and redo in editors, previous and next sheet in spreadsheets.

Give your mouse's two side buttons different actions in different apps. In apps you have not listed, the buttons keep their usual behavior.

Current app	First side button	Second side button
Browser	Back	Forward
Editor	Undo	Redo
Spreadsheet	Previous sheet	Next sheet
Google Sheets (in a browser)	Previous sheet	Next sheet
Figma	Undo	Redo

Needs Rebind 3.5.0 or newer on Windows or macOS. Rebind Link is not required. Live use remains unverified on Windows and macOS.

Set up

Open the package in Rebind and select Options.
Check the app lists: Browsers (back / forward), Editors (undo / redo), and Spreadsheets (previous / next sheet). Each already lists common apps. Separate names with commas. Part of the app's process name is enough, so chrome matches chrome.exe, and capital letters do not matter.
First side button and Second side button default to Mouse 4 and Mouse 5. Turn on Swap the two side buttons if the actions come out reversed.
Start the package from the editor toolbar. List changes apply on the next click. Button changes apply while the package runs on Rebind 3.9 or newer; on older versions, restart the package.

Google Sheets is recognized when the window title contains "Google Sheets", and Figma when the title contains "Figma" or the program is the Figma app, so both work inside any browser, even one listed under Browsers. Any browser tab whose title contains the word Figma, such as a Figma help page, also gets undo and redo. On macOS, Rebind reads window titles only with the Screen Recording permission; without it, titles are empty. Turning on Screen capture in Rebind's Settings is how Rebind asks for it. See macOS screen capture.

Limits

Listed apps receive a keyboard shortcut instead of the side-button press, so the app must support it:

	Windows	macOS
Browser	Alt+Left / Alt+Right	Cmd+[ / Cmd+]
Editor	Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y	Cmd+Z / Cmd+Shift+Z
Spreadsheet	Ctrl+PageUp / Ctrl+PageDown	Option+Left / Option+Right
Google Sheets	Alt+Up / Alt+Down	Option+Up / Option+Down
Figma	Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Shift+Z	Cmd+Z / Cmd+Shift+Z

Stop

Stop the package from the editor toolbar, or press Left Ctrl + Left Alt + K (Left Control + Left Option + K on macOS) to stop all scripts. The side buttons return to their usual behavior.

Version

Older release. Installs get 0.1.5.

README.md1.2 KB

# Mouse App Shortcuts

The two side buttons change meaning with the focused app. Everywhere else they stay ordinary side buttons.

| Focused app | Mouse4 | Mouse5 |
|---|---|---|
| Browser | Back | Forward |
| Editor | Undo | Redo |
| Spreadsheet | Previous sheet | Next sheet |

## Setup

Each class is a comma separated list of process names. A window matches when its process name contains one of the entries, case insensitive. On Windows that is the executable name (`chrome.exe` matches `chrome`); on macOS it is the application name (`Google Chrome` matches `chrome`). Edit the lists any time; changes apply on the next click.

Turn on **Swap the two side buttons** if your mouse reports them the other way round.

## Chords sent

- Windows: Alt+Left and Alt+Right, Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y, Ctrl+PageUp and Ctrl+PageDown.
- macOS: Cmd+[ and Cmd+], Cmd+Z and Cmd+Shift+Z, Option+Left and Option+Right.

## Limits

- Both side buttons are captured system wide while the script runs. In unlisted apps the press is passed straight through, but it does pass through the Rebind Engine first.
- Apps that bind the side buttons themselves will see the chord instead of the button.

3 files, 3.8 KB.

Mouse App Shortcuts

Readme

Set up

Limits

Stop

Files

Versions