Mouse scroll wheel acts as left arrow/right arrow.

[Brian Keener]

>On Thursday, September 01 at 01:35, Brian Keener wrote:
>  
>
>>I have a microsoft mouse with a scroll wheel that scrolls both up and 
>>down, and left/right.  The up/down scrolling action seems to act as 
>>left/right arrows.
>>
>>In firefox, using the scroll wheel goes back/forwards a page, for an 
>>example.
>>
>>Any idea what to do to fix this?
>>
>>Brian K
>>    
>>
>
>If this behaviour is consistent across all X applications, you could
>try using xmodmap:
>
>First, use xev to identify which button numbers are associated with the
>up, down, left & right movements.  Let's say these are 4, 5, 6 & 7
>respectively.  If you want the up "button" swapping with left, and
>down swapping with right, you would enter:
>
>xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
>
>you can use xmodmap -pp to verify the change.  You should see
>something like this:
>
>$ xmodmap -pp
>There are 7 pointer buttons defined.
>
>    Physical        Button
>     Button          Code
>        1              1
>        2              2
>        3              3
>        4              6
>        5              7
>        6              4
>        7              5
>
>I can't guarantee that this will work with XWin, but this technique
>works for xorg on Linux, so it's likely to be OK.
>
>HTH
>
>Phil
>  
>
Worked like a charm, Phil.

Thanks.

Brian K

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