Middle mouse button doesn't do unlimited scroll

EDDY1 · 03-30-2012, 01:03 AM

I've been using Debian Sid for quite a while on acer aspire 3620 & recently my middle scroll button on touchpad /mouse has only been moving maybe 2-3 lines at a time, where as it was a continuous scroll originally. i installed xserver-xorg-input-synaptic & gpointer, no options are available to change middle button scrolling.

Quote:

grep "TouchPad: buttons:" /var/log/Xorg.0.log

returns

Quote:

edward@debianperfectionplus:~$ grep "TouchPad: buttons:" /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 29.529] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: buttons: left right double triple scroll-buttons

I can scroll with arrow keys
On this installation I have not altered X11/xorg

ukiuki · 03-31-2012, 01:44 PM

Hi Eddy you might find the following links helpful if you haven't find it yet.
It is possible to set the touch pad to behave like mac and more.
http://ubuntu-snippets.blogspot.com....synaptics.html
http://www.varesano.net/blog/fabio/l...ook%20touchpad
http://www.debuntu.org/2006/06/18/67...mplete-guide/3

Regards

EDDY1 · 03-31-2012, 02:14 PM

Thank you ukiuki I think that the the links that you have provided are the most helpful that I've gotten thru my google searches. After looking at the first & second links that you provided those functions work as far as 2-finger scroll, but I want to enable the center button to continuously scroll until released. I am hoping that the third link has that capability.
Thank you for your responce as it is most appreciated.