On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 01:23:49PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I have a wireless M$ Explorer Touchmouse, and the touch pad is buggier > than a 10 day old carcass. > > Specifically, the side scrolling is driving me crazy, and its not a long > trip. ;) > > When it works, its 20x more sensitive sideways than vertically, and I > can't get my fingers far enough away from the pad to stop its crazy > behavior, and still rest them in a comfy location for button pushing. > > Is there anything I can put in an /etc/X11 file that will shut the side > scroll function off, but leave the vertical finger drags working?
attach an evemu recording and your xorg.log to a bug please. I don't have a recording for this one yet so it's hard to tell. Cheers, Peter > > Even that goes away quite frequently, and I have to turn the mouse over, > shut it off for a second or two & turn it back on, at which point it works > fairly well but will eventually become intermittent in its response for an > hour or so before completely dying, the the screen cursor still follows it > well, and the two buttons work well. But I've blamed that on a buggy > mouse. > > This is extremely distracting when I am writing code in geany (gedit does > not have a sideways scroll, but it has trashed important source code file > entirly too often, geany never has) because I have to drag the bar on the > bottom back the the left stop in order to see what I am writing. I need > help since the mouse makers figured out how to sell the high priced > versions by putting the optical eye way back under the palm of our hands > instead of up under your fingers in the #<$50 models. So the <$50 mice > aren't at all intuitive to use because you are forced to move the whole > arm when using them. _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
