Disable XF86Back and XF86Forward (browser back/forward on Lenovo Thinkpad)
- by Nicolas Raoul
My Thinkpad R500 has back/forward keys just about the direction keys, so on Firefox I keep losing entered text, accidentally.
How to disable these back/forward keys?
Excerpt from xev:
KeyPress event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x5e00001,
root 0xbc, subw 0x0, time 2375874, (1279,794), root:(1285,881),
state 0x10, keycode 166 (keysym 0x1008ff26, XF86Back), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyPress event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x5e00001,
root 0xbc, subw 0x0, time 2377115, (1279,794), root:(1285,881),
state 0x10, keycode 167 (keysym 0x1008ff27, XF86Forward), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False