mouse-wheel support working.

John (EBo) David plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Mon, 30 Jul 2001 22:19:02 -0700


Brian Cluff wrote:
> 
> I might be wrong, but in your settings aren't you telling X that you have a
> 3 button mouse and then telling it to map the Z axis to buttons 4 & 5.
> I think that your Buttons option should probably be 5,  although if it's
> working, the buttons option probably isn't being used, or it is being auto
> set.
>
> > I finially got the mouse wheel working.  The one step I had missing from
> > the directions I had around was editing /etc/X11/XF86Config and adding:
> >
> >   Option "ZAxisMapping"    "4 5"
> >   Option "Buttons"         "3"

That is what they had in their documentation...  But it is working.  Is
it possible that the buttons 3 is to define the regular 3 "clickable"
buttons and the ZAxisMapping set us the wheel?

anywhay, it is working as expected...

 EBo --