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Idea #4805: Make back/forward mouse buttons work in Nautilus

Written by forteller the 16 Mar 08 at 13:54. Category: Accessibility. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
Rationale
Today most computer mouses are equiped with back and forward buttons, but still if you want to get them to work in Nautilus you have to jump through hoops, and there's no GUI for it either. This is one of those small, annoying things that makes (Ubuntu) Linux look a bit amateurish for people used to other OSes (or at least Windows, I don't know how Mac OS does it). I know that Linux isn't amateurish, but but seeing it from the perspective of a new user, I think that a small thing like this will make some people feel that "if they can't even do that basic thing.." And besides that, it is really annoying! So please fix this so that it works by default without any configurations (not even with GUI)!
Tags: mouse nautilus

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Written by forteller the 16 Mar 08 at 13:54.
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bayger wrote on the 16 Mar 08 at 14:02
YES! This is annoying that Nautilus doesn't support Back/Forward like Firefox. Please, please, add support for that. :)

natureflow wrote on the 16 Mar 08 at 17:46
Can you explain the problem better please? My back/forward button in Nautilus is working. What do yo mean?

Denis wrote on the 16 Mar 08 at 23:13
I am wainting for this to be implemented. Now I always have to click the menu bar to go up one level.

pt123 wrote on the 17 Mar 08 at 02:08
I would prefer this in a file browser like Nautilus, than a web browser.

But with Gnome they are anti-mouse, they don't even support setting number of lines scrolled by the mouse wheel.


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