I recently got a controller from 8BitDo that has an extra pair of triggers and two extra face buttons for screenshots or whatever you want really. Issue is, not only do do my emulators not recognize these buttons, but is seems Linux Mint doesn’t know they exist at all. Even bringing up a program to map buttons to keys doesn’t show any input when those buttons are pressed. Does anyone know how to make these buttons recognizable? They’d be really helpful for toggling fast forward on games with long loading screens for instance or just resetting the system on a whim.

  • 123@programming.devEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Once you map them, do the settings stay on the controller itself? Dual booting or a VM with hardware pass through might be a (tedious) way to get that configured if so.

    • missingno@fedia.io
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      2 days ago

      Yes. Some models even let you have multiple profiles configured with a button to toggle between them - on my Pro 2 I have profiles for Nintendo layout and Xbox layout.

      • 123@programming.devEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Thanks for the info. Just got into Linux gaming recently and appreciate the first account stories since much of the internet seems kind of useless nowadays for looking up facts unfortunately.