On Thursday, September 01 at 01:35, Brian Keener wrote:
I have a microsoft mouse with a scroll wheel that scrolls both up and
down, and left/right. The up/down scrolling action seems to act as
left/right arrows.
In firefox, using the scroll wheel goes back/forwards a page, for an
example.
Any idea what to do to fix this?
Brian K
If this behaviour is consistent across all X applications, you could
try using xmodmap:
First, use xev to identify which button numbers are associated with the
up, down, left & right movements. Let's say these are 4, 5, 6 & 7
respectively. If you want the up "button" swapping with left, and
down swapping with right, you would enter:
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
you can use xmodmap -pp to verify the change. You should see
something like this:
$ xmodmap -pp
There are 7 pointer buttons defined.
Physical Button
Button Code
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 6
5 7
6 4
7 5
I can't guarantee that this will work with XWin, but this technique
works for xorg on Linux, so it's likely to be OK.
HTH
Phil