Re: Wheel mouse

[Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net>]

On 12/30/13, Man_Without_Clue <love.chaser@gmail.com> wrote:
> GENOME, thank you.

I can only guess that you use GNOME.

I don't use that, I use XFCE. But I have some suggestions below.

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> On 12/30/2013 10:54 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>> On 12/30/13, Man_Without_Clue <love.chaser@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I have USB connected Elecom M-FW1ULWH mouse to my debian wheezy amd 64.
>>>
>>> For some reason, wheel function is not working.
>> Which desktop are you using - KDE, GNOME, MATE, XFCE or something else?

You could try installing gnome-control-center, if it's not installed
already. That might have a mouse config applet.

Alternatively, try installing gpointing-device-settings.

As a last resort you could try lxinput, although that is for LXDE
desktop, so may not be compatible with GNOME. YMMV of course.

I use a Logitech trackball, and manually add to this file:
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf

The following lines:
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier  "Marble Mouse"
        MatchProduct "Logitech USB Trackball"
        MatchIsPointer "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
        Option "ButtonMapping" "1 8 3 4 5 6 7 2 2"
        Option "EmulateWheel" "true"
        Option "EmulateWheelButton" "8"
        Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7"
        Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection


But again, that's for a trackball, so you'd have to do some man-page
reading or web searching or something, to successfully do such a
manual config for your scroll wheel, which should Just Work(TM)(C) -
so hopefully you can find one of the above gui configurators for your
mouse.

Good luck
Zenaan