lunaryorn/synaptiks — Issue #38: back and forward as tap actions
Author: aldoo
Created: 2012-01-05 11:04:24+00:00
State: open

I think it would be nice if we could assign back (button 8) and forward (button 9) mouse buttons as tap actions.
Since most touchpads anyway have physical buttons for left/middle/right clicks, it would be a good and easy way to put the touchpad corners of the touchpad to some use.

synclient already allows such a setting (actually allows assigning any button number to any tap action) with commands such as:

synclient LBCornerButton=8
synclient RBCornerButton=9
...

Therefore I believe it is only a matter of adding two more items in the actions lists for tap actions in Synaptiks.