Re: X Window: Setting up mouse scroll for OOo Calc to one raw
On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:34:25 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote:
> Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:05:53 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote:
>>
>>> I'm running Debian GNU/Linux SID and my X Window uses Window Maker as
>>> a window manager.
>>>
>>> I'm using OpenOffice.org Calc very often and I want to setup mouse
>>> scroll in X so when I scroll with mice then in OOo Calc raws goes
>>> up/down only one raw and not three raws.
>>
>> So what you are basically seeking is a way for setting the mouse scroll
>> to a different value other than three lines at a time, right?
>
> The way to setup scrolling only one raw in OpenOffice.org Calc using
> mouse wheel button is to setup somehow the X Window, eg. to setup mouse
> driver to different value then the default, right?
Yes, or so I think.
> If one setup this successfully I don't know how would this appeares in
> other applications than OOo?
Mouse scroll can be set from X server as well as per application basis,
that is, you can set Xorg to use a value (e.g., scroll 3 lines at a time)
that will be used system wide affecting all of the programs but you can
also set a different value for one application which will affect just
that app. Firefox, for instance, can be configured to use a different
mouse scrolling value so I guess there can be others... I don't know for
OpenOffice, though :-?
>>> in xorg.conf but this setup only the wheel button and not it's speed
>>> or what that is needed for for setup scrolling in Calc or in other
>>> applications.
>>
>> I'm not sure how to achieve this. There has to be an option for the
>> current mouse driver you are using (mouse, evdev...?) but e.g., "man
>> evdev" returns no option available to control this setting.
>
> From the Xorg.0.log I find these lines:
>
> (II) config/udev: Adding input device ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse
> (/dev/input/event4)
> (**) ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: Applying InputClass "evdev pointer catchall"
> (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse'
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
^^^^^^^^^^^^
(...)
There you have it. So the question is now how to instruct that driver
(evdev) to use a different scrolling value, I see nothing at all a the man
page nor in the docs :-?
> Searching with Google using keywords 'evdev scroll wheel' gives to me no
> answer for this. Thanks!
Yep, there is not much information on the matter or at least I was unable to
find a clear way to configure it.
I would ask this question directly at Xorg's users mailing list:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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