[Glastonbury] Linux's latest...

Damon Chaplin damon at karuna.uklinux.net
Thu Apr 29 10:58:42 BST 2004


On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 23:48, Nick Irwin wrote:
> On Monday 26 Apr 2004 11:58, Damon Chaplin wrote:
> > Does your /etc/X11/XF86Config have this line in the mouse section:
> >
> >         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> 
> My XF86Config-4 file has:
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
> in it. Is that what's wrong?

Yes, most mice have up to 3 buttons. The ZAxisMapping option tells X to
send scroll-wheel events as if they were buttons 4 and 5. That is what
most toolkits/applications expect.

I don't know why it chose to use 6 & 7. That is odd.

Damon





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