mousewheel in x

drigz · 05-16-2004, 03:58 AM

i have tried to set up my mousewheel with XF86Config. Here is the relevant section:

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier	"Mouse1"
    Driver	"mouse"

    Option "Protocol"    "IMPS/2"

    Option "Device"      "/dev/mouse"

    Option "ZAxisMapping"	"6 7"
    Option "Buttons"	"7"
EndSection

My mouse has the two standard buttons, two side buttons, and you can press the mousewheel down. With that configuration, this is what hte buttons do:
Left Mouse Button: Left
Right Mouse Button: Right
Pushing the mousewheel down: Middle
Left Side Button: Middle
Right Side Button: Right
Scrolling the mousewheel in either direction: selects text in mozilla (nothing for a few moves, then onw word, then the line, then nothing again) in kwrite it does nothing.

what have i done wrong? why doesnt it scroll?

hw-tph · 05-16-2004, 04:17 AM

Try changing the ZAxisMapping option from "6 7" to "4 5", that's how I set it up on my Intellimouse Explorer, with the wheel pressed still working as middle click. In order to get the side buttons working correctly you need to use imwheel.

Håkan

drigz · 05-16-2004, 04:22 AM

ok, now my mousewheel works with the other buttons doing what they did before.

what advantage would imwheel give me?

drigz · 05-16-2004, 04:23 AM

also, when i press the middle button in mozilla, it goes to a different page.
what decides on this page?

hw-tph · 05-16-2004, 04:42 AM

You can check that in the options window in Mozilla. I think the default is to send whatever is in your copy-buffer to Google and hit "I'm feeling lucky", which produces the most amazing (and sometimes embarrassing) results when you accidentally press down the wheel.

imwheel lets you assign commands to your mousebuttons. For example, you can define the side buttons as back and forward when your mouse pointer is over a Mozilla window.

This thread over at the Gentoo forums discusses imwheel and xmodmap and it has been quite useful as a reference to me several times.

Håkan