Re: X Window: Setting up mouse scroll for OOo Calc to one raw
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> writes:
> 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
I shall do that and if find there the solution, I shall write down here
too.
--
Regards, Pal
<http://cspl.me>
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