"Forward" and "back" mouse buttons

[Thorsten Haude]

Hi,

* Tony Balinski wrote (2007-04-11 10:01):
>Having a mouse with these buttons on it allows me to navigate forward and back
>in a browser. I'd like to be able to bind them to NEdit actions too. With xev,
>I can see that they generate the mouse button numbers
>    forward: 7
>    back:    6
>The question is: what symbols do I need to put in my X translations tables so
>that I can bind events against them? Following the pattern of existing
>buttons, I would have thought Btn6Down, Btn6Up, Btn7Down, Btn7Up would do the
>trick, but they don't (at least under Cygwin's X server). Do I need to do
>something funny with xmodmap to define these names? Change a file somewhere?

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2004-July/001423.html

From this thread I would think that you have to change the X server.


Thorsten
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