Enabling back/forward mouse buttons in Dolphin

Question

Hi,
I am new to Arch and am not completely sure yet on how to go about providing a solution that I found. I've searched the Wiki and the Forums for this issue and wasn't able to find a solution through any Arch site. I was, however, able to find a solution posted on the KDE forums and would like to share it with anyone who is suffering the same issue.
The original forum post can be found here: http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=85430. I will summarize it here though for convenience.
First, you must install xautomation which can be downloaded at http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7312 and xbindkeys, which can be installed using Pacman.
Next, create a text file named .xbindkeysrc and save it to your home directory. The content of the file should be:
# For the benefit of emacs users: -*- shell-script -*-
# xbindkeys configuration #
# Version: 1.8.0
# If you edit this file, do not forget to uncomment any lines
# that you change.
# The pound(#) symbol may be used anywhere for comments.
# To specify a key, you can use 'xbindkeys --key' or
# 'xbindkeys --multikey' and put one of the two lines in this file.
# The format of a command line is:
# "command to start"
# associated key
# A list of keys is in /usr/include/X11/keysym.h and in
# /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h
# The XK_ is not needed.
# List of modifier:
# Release, Control, Shift, Mod1 (Alt), Mod2 (NumLock),
# Mod3 (CapsLock), Mod4, Mod5 (Scroll).
# The release modifier is not a standard X modifier, but you can
# use it if you want to catch release events instead of press events
# By defaults, xbindkeys does not pay attention with the modifiers
# NumLock, CapsLock and ScrollLock.
# Uncomment the lines above if you want to pay attention to them.
#keystate_numlock = enable
#keystate_capslock = enable
#keystate_scrolllock= enable
# Examples of commands:
"xbindkeys_show"
control+shift + q
# set directly keycode (here control + f with my keyboard)
"xterm"
c:41 + m:0x4
# specify a mouse button
"xterm"
control + b:2
#"xterm -geom 50x20+20+20"
# Shift+Mod2+alt + s
## set directly keycode (here control+alt+mod2 + f with my keyboard)
#"xterm"
# alt + c:0x29 + m:4 + mod2
## Control+Shift+a release event starts rxvt
#"rxvt"
# release+control+shift + a
## Control + mouse button 2 release event starts rxvt
#"rxvt"
# Control + b:2 + Release
# dolphin go back
"xte 'keydown Alt_L' 'key Right' 'keyup Alt_L'"
b:9
# dolphin go forward
"xte 'keydown Alt_L' 'key Left' 'keyup Alt_L'"
b:8
# End of xbindkeys configuration #
You then need to create an autostart entry in /home/user_name/.kde4/Autostart named xbindkeys.desktop containing the following code:
[Desktop Entry]
Comment[en_US]=
Comment=
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=xbindkeys
GenericName[en_US]=
GenericName=
Icon=
MimeType=
Name[en_US]=
Name=
Path=
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
Version=1.0
X-DBUS-ServiceName=
X-DBUS-StartupType=
X-DCOP-ServiceType=
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=
X-KDE-autostart-after=kdesktop
Now just reboot your computer and you should have back/forward mouse button functionality in Dolphin.

Answer 1

I know this thread is really old but I got the mouse buttons working using this solution (I have a 9 button mouse):
Firs make sure you have xmodmap installed on your system:
# pacman -S xorg-xmodmap
Then create the following shell script: ~/.kde4/Autostart/xmodmap.sh
#!/bin/bash
xbindkeys -e "pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9"
then make the script executable
$ chmod +x ~/.kde4/Autostart/xmodmap.sh
Restart KDE and hopefully the forward and backward mouse buttons should be working.