Forward/back mouse buttons don't work in list view

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2. If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? Be as detailed as possible.
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btw that works fine for me here.

To reproduce (assuming you have back/forward buttons on your mouse):

1) Open your home folder
2) Open any subfolder
3) Make sure folder view is set to "Icon view"
4) Use the back button on your mouse to go back to your home folder
5) Open the subfolder again
6) Make sure folder view is set to "List view"
7) Try and use the back button on your mouse to go back to your home folder

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Pedro Villavicencio <email address hidden>wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
> better. Please answer these questions:
> 1. Is this reproducible?
> 2. If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? Be as
> detailed as possible.
> This will help us to find and resolve the problem.
>
> btw that works fine for me here.
>
> ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
>
> --
> Forward/back mouse buttons don't work in list view
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486358
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> Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: nautilus
>
> Forward and back mouse buttons can't be used to navigate when files are
> displayed in list view. They work fine in icon or compact view.
>

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598328 ; looks like that bug, linking it , thanks for the detailed instructions Arthur.

On my Lucid the buttons are interpreted as if I left clicked: marking the entry under the mouse pointer.

Addon to prev. comment: they _almost_ act like left click. Drag and drop doesn't work with the back/forward buttons. Not that I'd like them to..

The upstream bug report claims this to have been fixed, but I'm still experiencing this with an up to date maverick installation.
In fact this has been broken for me since lucid.
There's also https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=605217 which might be related, though it doesn't work at all in list view.

This bug is not fixed for me in Natty Beta 1. Here is another relevant Bugzilla report: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629635

This bug affects me as well on an ubuntu 11.10 install.

I didn't even realise that it's working in icon view until I found this bug description.

Is there anything I could do to help fix this as I find it very annoying??

it has been fixed in http://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/commit/?h=gnome-3-4&id=ae375b34c28c157950069e8bae8e033f5c12a556

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:3.4.1-0ubuntu1

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nautilus (1:3.4.1-0ubuntu1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - Don't display comment field for desktop files
    - Fix off-by-one error in file operation counts
    - Fix mouse hardware back/forward buttons not working correctly
      (lp: #486358)
    - Fix "Undo Trash" for files with non-ASCII characters
    - Fix name corruption for untitled files under some circumstances
  * debian/patches/revert_desktop_comment.patch,
    debian/patches/git_utf_undo.patch,
    debian/patches/git_no_freespace_cpu_look.patch,
    debian/patches/git_copy_off_by_one.patch:
    - dropped, those fixes are in the new version
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:45:41 +0200