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Re: Turning off the %^&* scroll wheel



On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 12:12:15 -0400, Curt Howland wrote:
> On Friday 22 June 2007, Jonathan Kaye was heard to 
> say:
> > 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.
> 
> Mr. Kaye, many thanks. Unfortunately, there is no such option in the 
> two "mouse" related sections:
> 
> ==========
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
>         Driver          "mouse"
>         Option          "CorePointer"
>         Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
>         Option          "Protocol"              "ExplorerPS/2"
>         Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
>         Driver          "synaptics"
>         Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
>         Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
>         Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
>         Option          "HorizScrollDelta"      "0"
> EndSection
> =============
> 
> I tried reconfiguring and changing to imps rather than explorerps2, no 
> change.
> 
> Is there another possibility?

Try to add

Option "VertEdgeScroll" "off"
Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "off"

to the InputDevice section of the touchpad and restart X. (I would
comment out the line which sets HorizScrollDelta to zero and rather
switch horizontal scrolling off completely.) 

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