I have a question for both of these utilities.
Is there a way to map a hotkey or something that tells the OS to stop using the Joy Cons as a mouse? For example you'd use the Joy Con as a mouse to navigate to Dolphin, change settings, launch a game, etc, then press the home button to kill the mouse so you can use the Joy Cons as a controller. Then when you're done with Dolphin, press the home button and the Joy Cons will start functioning as a mouse again. Is something like this possible?
For Dolphin, I wanted to be able to use full-screen mode without seeing the mouse and I wanted the ability to exit full-screen mode without a keyboard.
To accomplish this, go into your dolphin graphics settings and check the hide mouse cursor box.
In order to be able to exit dolphin, I mapped the home button on my gamepad to ESCAPE. To do this, you need to install qjoypad:
(courtesy of
@wicksand420)
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For qjoypad you open the terminal and type
sudo apt-get update -y and hit enter
then this
sudo apt-get install -y qjoypad and hit enter
then to configure it, make sure your joycons are paired, then in the terminal type
qjoypad --notray and hit enter
A controller icon will appear, click on it to configure the controllers"
After you click on the controller icon, press the ADD button on the top, then press quick set on the button, and then map the ESCAPE key to the home button (or whichever button you choose).
Then, you can close the small controller icon.
Afterwards, you can simply launch qjoypad from the apps menu, and then it will run in the background with your new settings. I recommend locking qjoypad to the sidebar for quick access.
Now, when you launch dolphin in full-screen mode, you can press the home button to exit full-screen mode and retain full functionality of using your joycons as a mouse in ubuntu! And every time you reboot, you can just click on the qjoypad button in the sidebar and it will automatically run in the background.
