GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 605217
back and forward mouse buttons dont work when mouse over icon
Last modified: 2012-04-17 22:39:35 UTC
when the mouse cursor is over/above any file/ folder then the back and forward buttons dont work on my mouse. if i move the cursor a bit and onto a empty area everything is fine.
you could provide the exacts steps and the version exact of your nautilus for try to reproduce, thank for your report.
version Nautilus 2.28.1 ubuntu karmic 9.10 steps just open nautilius by say going in places menu and then clicking on one folder now back should work. but if the mouse pointer is over any folder/file icon bakc wont work when clicking mouse's back button. just move pointer a bit and it works. it is reproducable 100% of times. mouse is Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c01b Logitech, Inc. MX310 Optical Mouse
No, I can't reproduce, the mouse point is always on same place. I test over my mouse touchpad on my laptop
This bug is really annoying (almost as much as the "can't use shortcuts like CTRL+C under certain conditions"). Just to make sure you know what I mean, I'll try to describe it again. Everything is done in browser mode of nautilus 2.28. In "Compact View" or "Icon View" mode: ====================================== Working: -------- Extra buttons for navigation. I can back/fwd in folders using extra buttons of my MX700 mouse. Not working: ------------ Back/fwd action when currently in hover state of an icon. How to reproduce: ----------------- Open a nautilus window. Navigate to a (not empty) folder. Move mouse over an icon (make sure it's highlighted). Press navigation button while over an icon. Nothing happens. In "List View" mode there is no navigation at all, hovered items are selected instead.
I can't reproduce using Nautilus from the Elementary-Nautilus project (based on 2.28.1) in Icon View. Either the Elementary team made a fix that didn't get pushed back to the main Nautilus branch, or there's something more specific to this problem. Could the model of mouse make a difference? Window manager or GTK engine (a bit of a stretch, but...)
Nautilus 2.29.91 on lucid standard still has this problem.
(In reply to comment #5) > Could the model of mouse make a difference? No. Tried with three different models by different manufacturers.
I also notice this in Ubuntu 10.04, Nautilus 2.30.0 I am using a Microsoft Intellimouse. The back forward buttons (I think button 4 and 5) will not function when hovering over an icon. The mouse back/forward buttons work normally when no file is highlighted.
And still there with Nautilus 3.0.1.1.
[Bumping version number as per comment 9]
I can confirm this problem with nautilus-3.4.0-1.fc17.x86_64, Fedora 17 Beta. Happens only when the mouse cursor is over an icon and you are using extra hardware buttons on the mouse. In this case forward/back actions do not work. If you move the cursor into an empty space, they start to work. Annoying.
This was fixed for 3.4.1 with this commit [1] as part of bug 660006 [1] http://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/commit/?id=3deb33d449f293b8e2597ccd7cc3bacec7b40ca2