Way to adjust scroll wheel "speed"?

DrD · 10-09-2004, 03:51 AM

Him all, I've been using linux for nearly a year now, and am currently using Fedora and gnome (if that matters, probably not much). One <i>little</i> thing that's bugged me is the slow speed at which my scroll wheel seems to work. I have to do spin the wheel a whole lot to go up and down a certain amount. Anyone know of a way to adjust this?

DrD · 10-09-2004, 02:37 PM

*bump*

CGameProgrammer · 10-09-2004, 06:03 PM

I haven't tried this, but to even enable the scrollwheel I added this line to XFConfig86:

"Option" "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

But I bet those numbers can be tweaked to change the scroll speed. So look for the ZAxisMapping line and change it, and report the results.

I'm lazy.

LavaDevil94 · 10-09-2004, 06:28 PM

I don't think so. I think those two numbers are actually axis/button numbers, messing with them might make the wheel not work. Still, it's worth a try.

CGameProgrammer · 10-09-2004, 06:33 PM

Oh, you're probably right, it is a 5-button mouse. Nevermind then.

Tinkster · 09-29-2005, 04:25 AM

I've just done a desperate 10 minute google session on behalf
of someone who has a wheel-mouse :) and found the following
link, and thought I'd share, just in case others run into this
problem. (I came to this thread via google, btw ;}).

http://colas.nahaboo.net/mouse-wheel-scroll/

Preety good info, really, and a quick summary as follows:

Unless you install and use iWheel the behaviour of the
wheel-mouse for scrolling is an per-application setting.

Ways to set the wheel up per app are given on the website
above - enjoy.

Cheers,
Tink