[Thunar-dev] Use another mouse button for gestures

[Benedikt Meurer]

Erlend Davidson wrote:
> Mathias Brodala wrote:
>> Hello everyone.
>>
>> Reading the thread „Thunar Improvement Idea“ I encountered a question I asked
>> myself some time ago but didn’t ask here:
>>
>> Could it be possible to allow using gestures with another mouse button instead
>> of the middle one? I’m used to use mouse gestures with the right mouse button
>> from Opera.
>>
>> As long as the button is pushed, there won’t appear a menu anyway so it should
>> not interfere with the normal function of the button.
> I recently got a new computer mouse which has one of those 4-way mouse 
> wheels that go left-right (generally for scrolling horizontally) as well 
> as the usual up-down. A lot of linux programs already use the left-right 
> feature - in firefox it acts as back-forward, in eclipse it lets me 
> scroll left-right, in xfwm4 it lets me change workspace.
> 
> I'm wondering if thunar could use it for going back-forward like firefox?

MiscHorizontalWheelNavigates=TRUE (see docs/README.thunarrc).

Benedikt