Feature Request: Back/ forward mousebutton

[werbung]

Status
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Fix committed to lp:nuvola-player as r801. Will be released in Nuvola Player 2.4.0.
<http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~fenryxo/nuvola-player/trunk/revision/801>

Original report
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Hey,
I've got two extra buttons on my mouse which work as back (Go to previous page) and forward (Go to next page) buttons in firefox, chrome, nautilus, etc.
I used xev to figure out which event has to be caught:

Pressing the back-button outputs:

ButtonPress event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x4a00001,
    root 0xb1, subw 0x0, time 25563654, (75,169), root:(865,221),
    state 0x10, button 8, same_screen YES

ButtonRelease event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x4a00001,
    root 0xb1, subw 0x0, time 25563806, (75,169), root:(865,221),
    state 0x10, button 8, same_screen YES

Pressing the forward-button outputs:

ButtonPress event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x4a00001,
    root 0xb1, subw 0x0, time 25571534, (75,169), root:(865,221),
    state 0x10, button 9, same_screen YES

ButtonRelease event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x4a00001,
    root 0xb1, subw 0x0, time 25571734, (75,169), root:(865,221),
    state 0x10, button 9, same_screen YES

Those buttons typically work as long as the mouse is inside the window, so I don't have to move my mousepointer to the back button and click it.

I would be happy to see this implented in Nuvola as well!
Thanks for your great work, keep it up!

Sven

[Jiří Janoušek (fenryxo)]

Thanks for your feature request.

  status triaged
  importance wishlist
  milestone future
  tags accessibility ux

[Jiří Janoušek (fenryxo)]

Since development of Nuvola Player has been discontinued [1], I'm closing the bug tracker. It will be reopened when a new maintainer is found. I'm sorry I wasn't able to address this issue.

[1] https://launchpad.net/nuvola-player/+announcement/11960