4. and 5. mouse-button on thumb does not react during save-dialogue in LO

[Matthias Sprau]

While "saving" the mouse-buttons don't react to browse in the menu structure as usual e.g. in a filebrowser like nautilus.
(But I'm not sure if it has something to do with the gnome-shell of Ubuntu.)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: libreoffice-core 1:6.4.4-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-42.46-generic 5.4.44
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.6
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Aug 15 09:37:11 2020
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-05-23 (83 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<set>
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Heather Ellsworth (hellsworth)]

Can you tell me more? What model of mouse are you using? So you click save and while the save dialog is up, these mouse buttons don't do anything - what do you expect to happen?

[Matthias Sprau (sprau)]

Cherry DW5100

I would expect to geht back with one mouse-button for the thumb, if I was in the wrong folder, as I can do in Firefox, or Nautilus.

[Matthias Sprau (sprau)]

Problem still observed with:

LibreOffice
Version: 6.4.6.2
Build-ID: 1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

[Heather Ellsworth (hellsworth)]

Yep I reproduced this with a M510 mouse. After enabling the mouse buttons (I never use them) and starting xbindkeys I see that my forward and backward thumb buttons work in Firefox (did not before these steps):

$ sudo apt install xvkbd xbindkeys
$ cat ~/.xbindkeysrc
# Mouse Buttons
"xvkbd -xsendevent -text "\[XF86Back]""
m:0x0 + b:8
"xvkbd -xsendevent -text "\[XF86Forward]""
m:0x0 + b:9
$ xbindkeys

And these thumb buttons have no effect in the Libreoffice save dialog. But they don't seem to have an effect in any save dialog.. I also tried various save dialogs in: firefox, gimp, gedit.

So I think this is a gnome dialog issue.

[Heather Ellsworth (hellsworth)]

Further investigation reveals that an app needs to implement the back/forward navigation in the file chooser. In the meantime, you can try this suggestion for enabling these buttons globally:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64957969/can-i-set-up-a-global-gtk-accelerator-for-mouse-buttons

[Matthias Sprau (sprau)]

Thanks for your work.

[Matthias Sprau (sprau)]

>And these thumb buttons have no effect in the Libreoffice save dialog. But they don't seem to have an effect in any save dialog.. I also tried various save dialogs in: firefox, gimp, gedit.

I tried again with Ubuntu 22.04 and observe the same:
no reaction of thumb buttons in saving dialoug: LO, firefox, gedit, filezilla, ...

[Matthias Sprau (sprau)]

Opened a new bug-report: #2038095