Re: logitech back/foward buttons not working

[Crispin Flowerday <gnome flowerday cx>]

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 10:37 +0100, Wouter Bolsterlee wrote:
> På Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 04:09:20PM -0800, Alan skrev:
> > Hey all.  I tried out the latest version of epi (well, previous to the
> > just announced version today that is) and the only thing that seems to
> > not work nicely compared to firefox is the back/forward buttons in my
> > logitech mx700 mouse don't seem to work.
> 
> I think opening a bug report about this is the best way to have this fixed.
> Could you also try 'xev' to find out which key/mouse events are sent when
> you click these buttons. A lot of keycodes should work, but I cannot test
> this myself:
> 
> | src/ephy-window.c:      { XF86XK_Back,          0, "NavigationBack",       TRUE  },
> | src/ephy-window.c:      { XF86XK_Forward,       0, "NavigationForward",    TRUE  },

Those are keyboard key events, the current behaviour of buttons 6 and 7
is horizantal scroll - this was choosen to match the behaviour of
standard GtkTextViews.

However, you can easily change this behaviour, see:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312073#c6

We should probably add that to the FAQ...

Crispin