Bug 714878

Summary:	Cannot use Thinkpad "screen forward/backward" buttons
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Tim Niemueller <tim>
Component:	gnome-shell	Assignee:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	maxamillion, otaylor, samkraju, walters
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Description Tim Niemueller 2011-06-21 07:43:10 UTC

Description of problem:
IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads (a T60 here) have additional "screen forward" and "screen backward" buttons next to the cursor keys. The keysym is XF86Forward and XF86Backward. In gnome-shell, I cannot find a way to set them up to switch between desktops, which I have been using for the last five years or so.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
# rpm -q gnome-shell
gnome-shell-3.0.2-1.fc15.x86_64


How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run gnome-shell on IBM Thinkpad
2. Press buttons
  
Actual results:
Nothing

Expected results:
Desktop changed

Additional info:
All it would take is a setting in the keyboard shortcut section for "desktop forward/backward" (where this is in the new thing downward/upward, which really makes my head spin). While at it, it would be nice to also add a shortcut to go to the four desktop. Many people have been using four desktops in the past (back from the old days when this was the default rather than two), so adding a shortcut for "switch to 4th desktop" would be nice as well.

BTW, is there a way to have a configured minimum number of desktops?

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