Mouse back and forward buttons don't work on Linux

(#4422) Bug Open: Needs triage desktop ui

Reproduction steps

  1. Navigate through a few text channels
  2. Press the back/forward button on your mouse

Expected behaviour

I expected the back/forward buttons to work, navigating to the previous channel when you press back, or moving back forward if you press forward after pressing back. Pressing Alt+<- or Alt+-> still work as expected.

Actual behaviour

The back/forward buttons don't seem to do anything. This is possibly the same bug as 3077, but this behavior only got introduced very recently so I think it has a different source. I suspect something related to one of the fixes for middle click behavior might have caused this, as the timing lines up.

Build information

Canary Desktop 2026.1026.22540, Web 2026.1027.182052, Linux 7.2.11-200.fc44.x86_64 (x64), Electron 44.9.1, Chrome 152.0.7977.167, Node 24.22.0, Locale en-US

Platform

Linux

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