zmk/docs/docs/behaviors/mouse-emulation.md
Alexander Krikun d7d9eed317 feat(mouse): Initial mouse keys support.
* Add HID report/descriptor for a new report with mouse buttons,
  and x/y/wheel deltas.
* New mouse key press behavior for press/release of mouse keys.
* Add constants for HID main item values (e.g. data/array/absolute)
* Define and use constants for our HID report IDs.
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Mouse Emulation Behaviors Mouse Emulation

Summary

Mouse emulation behaviors send mouse events. Currently, only mouse button presses are supported, but movement and scroll action support is planned for the future.

Whenever the Mouse Emulation feature is turned on or off, the HID protocol used to communicate events to hosts changes. Unfortunately, those changes are not always detected automatically, and might require re-pairing your keyboard to your devices to work over bluetooth. If mouse behaviors are still not recognized by your device after doing that, you can try these troubleshooting steps.

Configuration Option

This feature can be enabled or disabled explicitly via a config option:

CONFIG_ZMK_MOUSE=y

If you use the mouse key press behavior in your keymap, the feature will automatically be enabled for you.

Mouse Button Defines

To make it easier to encode the HID mouse button numeric values, include the dt-bindings/zmk/mouse.h header provided by ZMK near the top:

#include <dt-bindings/zmk/mouse.h>

Mouse Button Press

This behavior can press/release up to 5 mouse buttons.

Behavior Binding

  • Reference: &mkp
  • Parameter: A uint8 with bits 0 through 4 each referring to a button.

The following defines can be passed for the parameter:

Define Action
MB1, LCLK Left click
MB2, RCLK Right click
MB3, MCLK Middle click
MB4 Mouse button 4
MB5 Mouse button 5

Mouse buttons 4 and 5 typically map to "back" and "forward" actions in most applications.

Examples

The following will send a left click press when the binding is triggered:

&mkp LCLK

This example will send press of the fourth mouse button when the binding is triggered:

&mkp MB4