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Bug 312073 - [feature-wish] use button 6&7 of the mouse for going back and fordward
[feature-wish] use button 6&7 of the mouse for going back and fordward
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 148557
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: General
1.6.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Marco Pesenti Gritti
: 318664 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-07-30 18:17 UTC by Javier Aravena
Modified: 2006-01-27 21:05 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.9/2.10


Description Javier Aravena 2005-07-30 18:17:28 UTC 
Version details: ubuntu version
Distribution/Version: Ubuntu (with backports)

I have a 7 button mouse (3 buttons on top+2 in the scroll+2 on the sides) and
I'd like to use the buttons on the sides as I can do it with firefox (yes, it
works in firefox)
Comment 1 Christian Persch 2005-07-30 19:15:14 UTC 
Can you please try with version 1.7.x [from ubuntu breezy] (or 1.8.x once
released), this should be fixed there.
Comment 2 Javier Aravena 2005-07-30 19:38:55 UTC 
thank you, I'll check
Comment 3 Crispin Flowerday (not receiving bugmail) 2005-12-30 22:30:54 UTC 
It is possible to get this working, basically you need to get X mapping the side buttons to 6 and 7 (you can use xev to see what they are mapped to). See 

http://dotnet.org.za/matt/articles/39097.aspx

(you can ignore any reference to imwheel, the important things are altering the xorg.conf file and using xmodmap to re-order the buttons to get the mouse wheel as 4/5 and the side buttons as 6/7)
Comment 4 Crispin Flowerday (not receiving bugmail) 2006-01-12 16:59:36 UTC 
*** Bug 318664 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Crispin Flowerday (not receiving bugmail) 2006-01-12 17:00:19 UTC 
Hmm, that comment isn't quite right, there is an about:config setting that needs changing otherwise they will do horizantal scrolling.
Comment 6 Crispin Flowerday (not receiving bugmail) 2006-01-27 20:44:28 UTC 
To get this working, you need to go to 'about:config' and change:

mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action -> 2
mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.sysnumlines -> true


Note that the defaults are set for mice with a horizantal scroll wheel (bug 148557), also note that mozilla uses a default of back/forward for buttons 6 and 7 on Linux.
Comment 7 Christian Persch 2006-01-27 21:05:36 UTC 
Since other gtk+ widgets also scroll horizontally on those buttons, we've decided to keep that behaviour in epiphany too.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 148557 ***