Opera 10 breaks Back/Forward buttons on BT mouse

Timothy Daniels

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Sep 28, 2009, 2:10:55 AM9/28/09

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I have upgraded to Opera 10 on my Ubuntu 8.04 laptop.
The back/forward buttons on my Dell Bluetooth Travel
mouse (made by Logitech) worked fine for Opera and FireFox
as long as the following changes were made in
/usr/share/opera/ini/standard_mouse.ini:

Comment out (or remove):
Button6 = Back
Button7 = Forward

and add:
Button8 = Back
Button9 = Forward

But now, with Opera v.10, the mouse's back/forward buttons
only work for FireFox. Something in Opera v.10 has broken
the back/forward buttons. Does anyone know the solution?

*TimDaniels*

Remco Lanting

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Sep 28, 2009, 6:28:45 AM9/28/09

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If I'm not mistaken, you can use the -debugmouse commandline option to see
which buttons Opera sees. Start Opera with the switch, press the button(s)
and hopefully Opera will show you which buttons you pressed.

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Timothy Daniels

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Sep 29, 2009, 1:23:00 AM9/29/09

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"Remco Lanting" wrote:

> Timothy Daniels wrote:
>
>> I have upgraded to Opera 10 on my Ubuntu 8.04 laptop.
>> The back/forward buttons on my Dell Bluetooth Travel
>> mouse (made by Logitech) worked fine for Opera and FireFox
>> as long as the following changes were made in
>> /usr/share/opera/ini/standard_mouse.ini:
>>
>> Comment out (or remove):
>> Button6 = Back
>> Button7 = Forward
>>
>> and add:
>> Button8 = Back
>> Button9 = Forward
>>
>> But now, with Opera v.10, the mouse's back/forward buttons
>> only work for FireFox. Something in Opera v.10 has broken
>> the back/forward buttons. Does anyone know the solution?
>>
>> *TimDaniels*
>>
>
> If I'm not mistaken, you can use the -debugmouse commandline option to see which buttons Opera sees. Start Opera with
> the switch, press the button(s) and hopefully Opera will show you which buttons you pressed.
>
>
> --
> Remco Lanting

I didn't know about that mode - interesting. What it showed was that
button8 controlled "back", and button9 controlled "forward" - just what
they were supposed to do - but there was still no response by the browser
to presses on the physical back and forward buttons. But the command
terminal showed me that there were the files standard_mouse.ini~ and
standard_mouse.ini~~, but no file named standard_mouse.ini . Not
knowing what else to do, I used the "mv" command to rename the
standard_mouse.ini~ file to standard_mouse.ini, and voil�!, the buttons
work again. I don't know how the non-tilde file disappeared, but it
apparently did, and reproducing it solved the problem.

*TimDaniels*

Jorgen Grahn

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Sep 29, 2009, 5:14:17 AM9/29/09

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On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:23:00 -0700, Timothy Daniels
<NoS...@SpamMeKnot.biz> wrote:
...

> to presses on the physical back and forward buttons. But the command
> terminal showed me that there were the files standard_mouse.ini~ and
> standard_mouse.ini~~, but no file named standard_mouse.ini . Not
> knowing what else to do, I used the "mv" command to rename the
> standard_mouse.ini~ file to standard_mouse.ini, and voil�!, the buttons
> work again. I don't know how the non-tilde file disappeared, but it
> apparently did, and reproducing it solved the problem.

Could be a bug in Opera. Maybe it tries to emulate the old Unix
convention

When auto-editing a file named foo, save a backup as foo~

and the logic fails somehow. Normally you never get backups of
backups (as the name standard_mouse.ini~~ indicates).

Or maybe you edited the files with vi, messed up somehow, and forgot
about it.

/Jorgen

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