Getting back/forward mouse buttons working as default

[Eric Dunbar]

> > > > buttons (apart from mouse1, which double clicks all the time).
> > > >
> > > > Any chance of this getting in?
> > >
> > > THis would be sweet :) I hate fiddling with imwheel..
> >
> > Not sure if you saw the following... imwheel is NOT needed!
> >
> > > No cryptic programs to install whatsoever! I don't know what the
> > > reasoning is behind not activating all "seven" mouse buttons as a
> > > default but I can only imagine that'll change soon.
> > >
> > > For details on what to do, check out
> > > http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/ManyButtonsMouseHowto and the other
> > > Ubuntu wiki.
>
> Well, that's only  in Firefox though.

It'll be up to the app programmers as to whether they support the
extra mouse buttons. I imagine that Mozilla does too though (of
course, I don't use Moz so I'm not sure).

As for imwheel -- it certainly could be used very effectively in a
_default_ install of any desktop distro PROVIDED the GUI controlling
the settings was improved. As it stands it requires a little bit of
fiddling to get working properly. The ideal would be that you simply
open up a System:Preference for the mouse and have an extra imwheel
tab! (of course, if it's going to be incorporated at such a level
it'll require a lot of QA testing).

Eric.