Re: Turning off the %^&* scroll wheel

[M-L <rose_snug@bigpond.com>]

On Friday 22 June 2007 19:13, Jonathan Kaye shared this with us all:
>--} 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

I have the same behaviour and no option as above and have not yet discovered 
why this has suddenly appeared or how it may be stopped.

Started about 3 upgrades ago.

I'm still looking.

Be well,
Charlie

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