Scroll back and forward through document pages with back and forward keys

[Nick Jenkins]

Binary package hint: evince

On my T40 IBM ThinkPad laptop, there are two keys for scrolling backwards and forwards through pages (usually used in a web browser as the back and forward buttons), located next to the standard 4 arrow keys. Could these back/forward keys please be made to work in evince like they "Page up" and "page down" keys currently do?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Aug 28 11:36:29 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
Package: evince 2.22.2-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

This can easily be done in intrepid!

In intrepid, the Thinkpad Forward/Backward Keys correctly emit XF86Back and XF86Forward events, which can be mapped on the Previous/Next Page menu items by pointing at the menu entry (without selecting it) and then pressing the thinkpad forward/backward key

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, that seems to be an upstream issue, could you open it on bugzilla.gnome.org too?

[Nick Jenkins (nickpj)]

Done - Logged upstream as: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=553892

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for sending the bug to GNOME

[xiangxw (963632192-m)]

great feature!

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Upstream bug closed "RESOLVED FIXED" on 2017-10-05
Checked working with evince 3.32.0 in Ubuntu 19·10 (dev)
Closing as fixed