Image viewer that uses Fwd/Back mouse buttons?

**Rubicon421** · November 12th, 2010

Anyone know a good image viewer that uses the forward and back mouse buttons to navigate through the current image being displayed?

I know a lot of threads talk about mapping these buttons and assigning keystrokes to them but the extra mouse buttons currently work in Firefox so doesn't that mean they are already mapped? I don't really want to mess around with that config file if it's already set up right.

**luigi_mb** · November 13th, 2010

Originally Posted by Rubicon421

Anyone know a good image viewer that uses the forward and back mouse buttons to navigate through the current image being displayed?

I know a lot of threads talk about mapping these buttons and assigning keystrokes to them but the extra mouse buttons currently work in Firefox so doesn't that mean they are already mapped? I don't really want to mess around with that config file if it's already set up right.

I use viewnior

http://xsisqox.gith*******/Viewnior/index.html

It has the arrow buttons you want; renders most images, including tiff.

/luigi

**Rubicon421** · November 13th, 2010

Your link is broken. I found the repository for Viewnior and added it though. Sorry for the confusion but I think you misunderstood my question.

It does have the navigation arrows but so does just about every other image viewer. I am looking for a way to trigger the same command as those forward and back arrow buttons in the interface by using the 4th & 5th mouse buttons.

**Rubicon421** · November 26th, 2010

Just wanted to add that the extra mouse buttons are working in Nautilus for navigating back and forth from the current and previous open folder. If that works then I don't think it has anything to do with mapping the buttons but all the similar problems/solutions I can find involve mapping the mouse buttons.

Anyone know how to make a script to capture the forward/back button clicks and use that to trigger the next/previous image buttons on the toolbar of Shotwell or any other GNOME image viewer?

**alfu** · June 12th, 2012

I made a post some time back that it would be nice if Image Viewer allowed you to run a slideshow with only mouse control. Since it is already one of the best viewers around, it wouldn't take much more to make it really a premium piece of software. I'm a bit disappointed these enhancements have not made it into the one distroed with 12.04.

Rightclick: go forward one slide
Leftclick: go back one slide
Centerclick: end slide show

Scrollwheel: zoom, but with one enhancement; namely that forward and backward notches on the wheel would have unequal levels of zoom. That way, by rocking it back and forth, we could get essentially infinite zoom levels instead of stepped ones, just by using the wheel.