Getting back/forward mouse buttons working as default

[Eric Dunbar]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:33:51 -0800, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:56:26PM -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> It would be a great idea to document this process in the wiki so that the
> adventurous who experiment with Hoary have some resources to fall back on.

It's not great but it's a starting point for others to work on...
(I'll try to add little tricks as I discover/need them):

<https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HoaryAnUpgradeLeftGNOMEOrHoaryUnusableOrBrokeItHowToFixIt>