Fogger Doesn't Recognize My ThinkPad's Forward / Back Buttons

Bug #1036937 reported by anthropornis
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Fogger
Triaged
Undecided
Owais Lone

Bug Description

The Lenovo ThinkPad T420i has a Forward button and a Back button, located above the conventional left and right arrow keys. These buttons work splendidly with Firefox and Chromium, and preclude the need for hitting the Alt key.

It would be nice if I could use these in Fogger apps as well.

summary: - Fogger Doesn't Decognize My ThinkPad's Forward / Back Buttons
+ Fogger Doesn't Recognize My ThinkPad's Forward / Back Buttons
Owais Lone (loneowais)
Changed in fogger:
status: New → Triaged
assignee: nobody → Owais Lone (loneowais)
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Owais Lone (loneowais) wrote :

Hmm, I'm not sure if this should be fixed in Fogger. It's a trivial fix; Just need to hookup back/forward actions to the buttons but I think it should be handled at a lower level. May be XOrg should automatically send alt+back/alt+forward to apps when these keys are pressed.

You can also assign alt+back/alt+forward to these keys in Gnome Control Center. That way they'll work in almost every app instead of just fogger.

Thanks

Changed in fogger:
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
Owais Lone (loneowais)
Changed in fogger:
status: Won't Fix → Triaged
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