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Bug 143000 - bind keys for browser navigation (back / forward)
bind keys for browser navigation (back / forward)
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 133815
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: [obsolete] Keybinding
git master
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Bastien Nocera
Control-Center Maintainers
AP4
Depends on: 162748
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-05-23 12:30 UTC by Jürg Billeter
Modified: 2006-01-11 13:50 UTC
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Description Jürg Billeter 2004-05-23 12:30:12 UTC 
Some keyboards have back / forward keys to
navigate in a web browser - for example all or
most IBM ThinkPads have them. It'd be nice to be
able to bind them to the appropriate action.

The easiest way to accomplish this is probably by
sending Alt+Left respectively Alt+Right to the
current focused window, as Epiphany, Galeon and
Mozilla interpret these keystrokes.

Perhaps this should be generalized, i.e. perhaps
there are users who want to bind an arbitrary key
combination to a special key.

I can probably work on that myself when I have
some free time, but I'd like to get a comment on
this from a maintainer first.
Comment 1 Andrew Sobala 2004-06-05 17:55:49 UTC 
Is the bug that the special keys don't bind in the "Keyboard Shortcuts" dialog
properly?
Comment 2 Jürg Billeter 2004-06-05 23:49:00 UTC 
The "bug" is that there are no "Web Go Back/Forward" actions in the "Keyboard
Shortcuts" dialog, therefore I've marked the bug as enhancement.
Comment 3 Calum Benson 2004-10-21 15:36:59 UTC 
Marking as AP4 to reflect accessibility impact.
Comment 4 Calum Benson 2004-10-21 16:47:21 UTC 
Apologies for spam-- ensuring Sun a11y team are cc'ed on all current a11y bugs.
 Filter on "SUN A11Y SPAM" to ignore.
Comment 5 Sebastien Bacher 2005-01-02 21:44:16 UTC 
I've opened a bug against epiphany, they need to add an handler for XF86Back and
XF86Forward to get this working: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162748
Comment 6 Bastien Nocera 2006-01-11 13:50:03 UTC 
Those should be added to the keyboard layouts in the distribution.
keysym <-> keycode matching is being removed, as it causes more problems than it solves.

That's shouldn't stop Ephy handling those keybindings though.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 133815 ***