Getting back/forward mouse buttons working as default

[Martin Alderson]

Most of the new high end Microsoft ones have a horizontal scroll wheel.


On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 06:35:21 -0700, Myles Green <rmg57 at telus.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 16:18:04 +0000
> Martin Alderson <martinalderson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Oh, also - what about horizontal  mouse wheel scrolling (push the
> > mouse wheel button to the left and it scrolls left, to the right it
> > scrolls right etc) that some mice do - is this even possible in X?
> > It's a bit gimmicky and I don't use it much, but I can see where it
> > could be very useful (spreadsheets).
> 
> I've not come across a wheel-mouse that allows you to push sideways on
> the wheel. I have seen apps that, if you place the pointer on the
> horizontal scroll bar and roll the wheel forwards or backwards, the
> scroll bar moves left or right. It would be nice to see that
> standardised.
> 
> Cheers,
> Myles
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