GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 59532
Mouse buttons 6 and 7 not useable
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
There is no menu entry for additional buttons (left and right side on my mouse). All mice in the optical and explorer series from MS have these buttons (see http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouse/mouse.asp) There are also some Logitech mice with a fourth button: http://www.logitech.com/cf/products/mice.cfm
Forgot to tell how i use them under Windows: they are great for navigating forward and back
Patches are welcome ... I dont think developers has such a mouse. Also I dont know how X/gtk/mozilla support them
Here, mouse buttons 4 and 5 are up and down, respectively, on the mouse wheel. I imagine that it would be easy to add support for the extra buttons, if you can tell us what they're mapped as in your XF86Config (6 and 7?).
Such mice are a bit tricky to set up. The following pages may be helpful: http://koala.ilog.fr/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ http://koala.ilog.fr/anyboard/MouseWheel/posts/1029.html http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/newbie/2001-July/008967.html http://ftp.xfree86.wox.org/4.1.0/doc/README.mouse http://www.teamstaroffice.org/de/howto/linmouse/linmouse.html Here it is button 6/7 (tested with "xev") My configuration (RedHat 7.1 / XFree86 4.1.0 / MS IntelliMouse Optical): * /etc/X11/Xmodmap pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5 --- * /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Section "InputDevice" Driver "mouse" ... Option "Buttons" "7" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" ... EndSection
I just committed a small patch to CVS that should hopefully make it so buttons 6 and 7 make the embed go back and forward, respectively. Is a pref configuring what the buttons do necessary? (I doubt it; I think very few people have these mice.)
Nah, we dont need a pref ;) Can I mark it as fixed ?
yes, for now:)
It would useful to have a small note on the prefs page about that function even if it is hardcoded. I also think using these buttons in combination with CTRL would be a good way to switch between the tabs. Hopefully these really useful mice will become more common.
I'll add a note about this the next time I update the manual. If these type of mice become popular, I think it would be good to add a pref to make the extra buttons do things like switching tabs, but I don't think it's necessary at this point.
Daniel, reassigning to you. Am I wrong or this is not fixed ?
It sounds like it doesn't work yet. Adam Lopresto <adam@express.cec.wustl.edu> mailed me a while back saying he made the same change to his local copy of Galeon about a month ago, but that Mozilla is passing button 0 instead of buttons 6 and 7. This seems to be related to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30431 . I'll post there asking what the current status of this is.
Marking NOTGNOME, since as far as I know, this is a Mozilla problem.