Mouse Configuration in xorg.conf

PP133 · Apprentice Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Posts: 192

Hey peeps, I'm trying to configure my laptop's mouse buttons in xorg.conf but I'm a bit confused.

I have three mouse buttons on my laptop. When I had Windows on this laptop, I would press and hold the middle button and move the cursor up/down to scroll up/down a webpage. I would really like to set that back up in Gentoo.

I don't mind the middle mouse button pasting things, but if enabling this web scroll feature on it means I can't paste with it, I'd be fine pasting with the right mouse button.

I've been reading the xorg.conf and X setup guides but I find that their explanation of ZAxisMapping is lacking. Maybe I'm reading the wrong man page but even 'man xorg.conf' is lacking in this department.

Can any of you gurus out there point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance!
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-Paul

didymos · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 7:10 am Post subject:

In firefox at least, it does that by default. No special config required. Just don't click on a text entry area.

[edit] Actually, you don't hold it down. You middle-click and it goes into a scroll mode.
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Thomas S. Howard

PP133 · Apprentice Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Posts: 192

Hrmm, well it's not working for me...

Here's the mouse section of my xorg.conf:

didymos · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:57 pm Post subject:

Huh. Alright, open about:config, and see if general.autoScroll is set to true. As far as xorg.conf goes, the "4 5 67" was correct. Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see what protocol it decides to use with the mouse.
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Thomas S. Howard

PP133 · Apprentice Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Posts: 192