Report: Back-button on Logitech mouse doesn't work

[jonathansampson]

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Describe the issue you encountered:

Marcel Bootsman @mbootsman
@brave My back button on my Logitech mouse does not work in Brave on Ubuntu. It does work in FF, Chrome. (Source: https://twitter.com/mbootsman/status/798231954051264513)

Expected behavior:
Press the mouse's back-button should cause the browser to navigation to the last page in history.

Platform: Ubuntu

Brave Version:

Steps to reproduce:

1. Navigate to http://stackoverflow.com
2. Navigate to http://brave.com
3. Press Logitech mouse's back-button
4. Note that the browser does not navigate backwards

[mbootsman]

Brave version
Brave: 0.12.8
Electron: 1.4.23
libchromiumcontent: 53.0.2785.143
V8: 5.3.332.47
Node.js: 6.5.0
Update Channel: dev

Ubuntu version
$ lsb_release -s -d
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS

Mouse hardware
Logitech Performance MX
also fails for the Logitech M705

[mbootsman]

Any update on this? It is really annoying to use the default back button.

[bsclifton]

Related: #3101

[JonathanTech]

Also failing for me with a logitech MX master

Brave: 0.13.5
rev: 1db81cb
Muon: 2.56.8
libchromiumcontent: 56.0.2924.87
V8: 5.6.326.50
Node.js: 7.4.0
Update Channel: dev
os.platform: darwin
os.release: 16.4.0
os.arch: x64

[bbondy]

auxclick is probably fired, do any of our devs have one? If not we can order one and expense.

[bbondy]

I'm getting a desktop computer and I think it'll have this mouse or a compatible one, so I'll look into it soon.

[bbondy]

So far I found out that we do support it on Windows via an originally exposed electron event app-command. But it is Windows only. So we need to implement it for other platforms still. It's not a regression, but we should still add it.

[bbondy]

electron/electron#6996

[jonathansampson]

Dropping in my .02 here as well. I just noticed that my back button wasn't working (Microsoft Ergonomic Mouse). So I went looking.

• No auxclick events were being fired when I clicked the back button.
• xinput reports my mouse as being ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse
• xinput also lists VirtualBox mouse integration

When I tested (xinput test 12) the ImExPS/2 pointer, these were my mappings:

• Left Click: 1
• Wheel Press: 2
• Right Click: 3
• Wheel Up: 4
• Wheel Down: 5
• Back Button: 8

I'm assuming buttons 6 and 7 are Wheel Tilt Left, and Wheel Tilt Right. But neither of those are being registered in xev or xinput test.

[dandv]

Same here on a Logitech G700. Ubuntu 16.04.2. The back button works fine in Chrome.

[soamaven]

Similar issue for Logitech Performance MX, Linux Fedora 25

[ghost]

Steel series rival 300, back button does not back. Xenial

[bsclifton]

Is this the same issue as #3101?

[mbootsman]

Looks like it.
Still doesn't work with the latest version.

Brave	0.18.16
rev	8003c66
Muon	4.3.6
libchromiumcontent	60.0.3112.78
V8	6.0.286.44
Node.js	7.9.0
Update Channel	dev
OS Platform	Linux
OS Release	4.10.0-28-generic
OS Architecture	x64

[bsclifton]

Closing as a duplicate of #3101

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