Getting back/forward mouse buttons working as default

[Eric Dunbar]

> All you really need to know to keep Hoary going is that if a Synaptic
> update breaks GNOME (as an update occasionally does), then you have to
> switch to one of the other "terminals" (ctrl-alt-F1 through 6), login
> as the main user, run sudo apt-get update followed by sudo apt-get
> upgrade, followed by sudo reboot and you should be fine (except that
> every 30 restarts you have to wait for your disk to be checked in the
> boot sequence ;). And, sometimes you can fix problems by just
> restarting X11 with control-alt-delete in terminal F7.

Of course, you do have to wait for someone on the Ubuntu side of
things to affect the fix before doing apt-get update & upgrade (since
it's unlikely you're the only one impacted), and, if there are
multiple instances of GNOME-panel the only solution appears to be that
you have to do a full reboot.