Re: Turning off the %^&* scroll wheel
Curt Howland wrote:
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> Hi. Up to date Sid.
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> Over this last week, something happened to the mouse interface.
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> I have a laptop with a touchpad. For some reason, now there is
> a "scroll wheel" area on the right side of this touchpad, something I
> never turned on deliberately.
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> There is an option in the KDE control panel to make the "scroll wheel"
> slow down, but nothing to turn it off.
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> I would very much like to turn it the %^&* off. Is there some hidden
> option I can select/unselect that I've been unable to find?
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> Last week there was no "scroll wheel".
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> Curt-
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Hi Curt,
The mouse/touchpad is controlled in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Look for a
Section "InputDevice" and if you see something like this:
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
then comment it out. That should get rid of the scrollwheel behaviour.
Cheers,
Jonathan
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