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I'm using steam to play CS:GO on Arch Linux. So far everything works but mouse thumb buttons. I tried to map them in game, then I realized game does not identify those keys at all. I went through Thumb Buttons - forward and back but I think the issue here is evdev is not identifying thumb buttons events as buttons. (I'm using Arch Linux + bspwm + sxhkd setup)

xev output for forward thumb button

LeaveNotify event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x4c00001, root 0x1e6, subw 0x0, time 4046616, (2,420), root:(974,442), mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor, same_screen YES, focus YES, state 0 EnterNotify event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x4c00001, root 0x1e6, subw 0x0, time 4046777, (2,420), root:(974,442), mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor, same_screen YES, focus YES, state 0 KeymapNotify event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x0, keys: 4294967270 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

xev output for back thumb button

LeaveNotify event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x4a00001, root 0x1e6, subw 0x0, time 3944070, (7,455), root:(979,477), mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor, same_screen YES, focus YES, state 0 EnterNotify event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x4a00001, root 0x1e6, subw 0x0, time 3944181, (7,455), root:(979,477), mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor, same_screen YES, focus YES, state 0 KeymapNotify event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x0, keys: 4294967270 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

I tried following configurations to xorg too.

Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Evdev Mouse" Driver "evdev" Option "Name" "Kingsis Peripherals ZOWIE Gaming mouse" Option "evBits" "+1-2" Option "keyBits" "~272-287" Option "relBits" "~0-2 ~6 ~8" Option "Pass" "3" Option "CorePointer" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" InputDevice "Evdev Mouse" "CorePointer" EndSection

I tried killing sxhkd

According to solution in this question, keys could be grabbed globally. only potential application would be sxhkd so I killed the process and tried thumb buttons on xev window but it gave the same results mentioned above.

How do I get thumb buttons working?

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Can't comment yet, so writing this as answer. I'd suggest to check with another common mouse using some known configurations for them, as shown in the following link: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mouse_buttons

For example they indicate there that thumb buttons in most Logitech MX mice resolve to 8 and 9. Once everything works with that other common mouse, troubleshooting with the Zowie might be clearer and easier.

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I completely forgot that I was running imwheel in the background to increase the scroll wheel speed. Mouse buttons are captured globally by imwheel but never came out. I could restrict imwheel to capture button 4 & 5 as in the answer of this question

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