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How to make Linux Mint recognize controllers with extra buttons (pawb.social)

submitted 3 months ago by cloudskater@pawb.social to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] seathru@quokk.au 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I've got the Pro 2 Wired and those extra triggers aren't extra buttons. You can remap any of the other controller buttons to these extra triggers. But then you lose functionality on whatever button you remapped to that trigger. So you don't actually gain 2 extra buttons. You can just move where they are at. I was disappointed with this; and hoping a future firmware update fixes it. And I think the 2 small extra face buttons are just for profile switching and programming. Not sure if you can remap those to do something else.