scrolling weirdness (SOLVED)

kleeks · n00b Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 22

hmm when browsing (tried both opera and firefox) my scroll doesn't scroll the page, it moves backwards and forward through the pages on firefox and only scrolls when over the scroll bar in opera

not sure what I've done wrong tbh, heres the mouse section from my XF85config

piraeus · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2003 Posts: 41

The firefox thing sounds like keybindings, have you checked that yet? Sorry I don't use firefox... the opera thing is weird .. I can't find a solution at the moment...

[edit]You might try http://list.opera.com/pipermail/opera-linux/
sorry i can't help more...

kleeks · n00b Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 22

I'm gonna persue the firefox side of things, and will look at me keybindings (lol when i find the relative hidey-hole) - after using both, i prefer FF ya see

cheers for the reply - I take it you can see nowt wrong with the XF86Config then

(I was thinking the problem was there, due to both browser reacting oddly) - lol in fact come to think of it, it behaves oddly in all apps

usually if theres a horizontal and vertical scroll bar, scrolling moves the horizontal one, not the vertical one :-0 - its then neccessary to move over the vertical one to have it work. THis is true for all the apps i have checked it with

piraeus · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2003 Posts: 41

well ok that does sound like it might be a mapping problem.
From /usr/doc/xorg-x11-6.7.0/README.mouse:

kleeks · n00b Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 22

Hmmm - didn't have that doc , must've slipped through the net

found it online though

>>> http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.7.0/doc/mouse5.html#23

As i read it,

Flammie · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 11:42 pm Post subject:

I don't know if they've fixed it in xorg, but in xfree you had to map the wheel to last two buttons (eg. 6 7) to get it working, and then remap those back to buttons 4 and 5 using xmodmap. If you stated ZaxisMapping to 4 5 directly you wouldn't get mouse buttons four and beyond working.

piraeus · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2003 Posts: 41

You're right kleeks, I wasn't paying close enough attention when I copied that. Did you ever get it working? (in case someone comes across this post later)...

kleeks · n00b Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 22

hehe its an ongoing thing atm (along with 'other' things i need to get sorted) - this particular problem is about middle of my list, but good weather and RL have been interfering with any action

I'll be sure to post the causes/solution when i find it - I've tried changing the protocol's and various bindings, but to no avail - will try flammies trick next, and maybe emerge iwheel (name might be wrong there - but it was something i nopticed in another thread) other options I'm looking at is the old knoppix trick (cfg cutting and pasting)

watch this space .....

kleeks · n00b Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 22

/me slaps himself with a medium sized, slightly marinaded, clay baked haddock

well flammie was on the button - although the scroll wheel worked (zaxis bound to 6 7 in XF86config) it was infact bound to forward and back (hence the skipping through pages and horizontal scrolling) - actually trying the side buttons gave it away when they scrolled the page up and down :oops:

piraeus · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2003 Posts: 41

Glad to hear it. The good side is that hopefully someone else having the same problem will come across this post and have their answer. So you probably helped someone else. You might want to append [Solved} to the beginning of this topic subject, so people can find it in their searches and helpers can move on to unresolved issues. From what I understand, people often fix their issues and never post back, which leads to duplicate questions, and that's not good for the forum's server hardware in the long run.
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