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dedhart

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Registered: 2006-07-02

Posts: 123

Mouse gestures enabled by default???

Hey I'm getting kinda annoyed when I move my mouse the wrong way and firefox goes to the last page I visited. Now I have no idea how this mouse gesture got there, but I'd like to deactivate it. Its not a firefox gesture as far as I can tell and I never activated any desktop specific mouse gestures, so unless I accidentilly downloaded some kinda funky mouse thing with xorg (damn xorg 7 packages) I have no idea why it does this, but I'd apreciate any help I could get removing or dissabling it.

Namelis1

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From: Warm and fuzzy

Registered: 2006-06-14

Posts: 11

Re: Mouse gestures enabled by default???

The thing that you do wrong is that you scroll too fast.
Oddly the same thing happends to me too
Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this?

dedhart

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Registered: 2006-07-02

Posts: 123

Re: Mouse gestures enabled by default???

odd that it never happens to me in any other distro or OS (windows)

Namelis1

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From: Warm and fuzzy

Registered: 2006-06-14

Posts: 11

Re: Mouse gestures enabled by default???

actualy this happends with more stuff than just mozilla firefox. one time i scrolled a license agreement in arch too fast (yes you read it right ^^), anyway, a window poped up asking me how i wanted to open some file

dedhart

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Registered: 2006-07-02

Posts: 123

Re: Mouse gestures enabled by default???

Ok I think I may have figured this out, edit xorg.conf and change ZAxisMapping from "4 5 6 7" to "4 5" should do the trick.

skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Mouse gestures enabled by default???

Yeah, this happened when Xorg got upgraded to 7.0. It also changed the polarity on the scroll wheel with the same driver on some mice. I've used the same xorg.conf file forever and all the sudden things went wacky on me.

McQueen

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From: Arizona

Registered: 2006-03-20

Posts: 387

Re: Mouse gestures enabled by default???

I've used the same xorg.conf file forever and all the sudden things went wacky on me.

$ man pacman

NoUpgrade   = etc/X11/xorg.conf

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skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Mouse gestures enabled by default???

$ man pacman

NoUpgrade   = etc/X11/xorg.conf

This was actually from my ex (hurray!!!) Mandriva 2006/Cooker hybrid box. I just plugged it in because it always worked before. And you know what? It nearly worked pretty good-ish-ly-er... sort of.

Anyway, thanks. This is very useful information.

_Gandalf_

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Registered: 2006-01-12

Posts: 735

Re: Mouse gestures enabled by default???

I've used the same xorg.conf file forever and all the sudden things went wacky on me.

$ man pacman

NoUpgrade   = etc/X11/xorg.conf

(0)[root@nasreddine ../config/home/wael/.wmii-3]# pacman -Qo /etc/X11/xorg.conf 
error: No package owns /etc/X11/xorg.conf

As you see, xorg.conf is not provided by any package and thus the above code is completely useless...

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Namelis1

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From: Warm and fuzzy

Registered: 2006-06-14

Posts: 11

Re: Mouse gestures enabled by default???

isnt xorg.conf supposed to reside in the users home directory?
And that thing happends even on a fresh install.
So, does anyone have any ideas what to do?

dedhart

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Registered: 2006-07-02

Posts: 123

Re: Mouse gestures enabled by default???

It's supposed to be in /etc/X11, you should move it there.

patroclo7

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From: Bassano del Grappa, ITALY

Registered: 2006-01-11

Posts: 915

Re: Mouse gestures enabled by default???

Only be careful with things like 'hwd -xa': it deletes the existent /etc/xorg.conf and similars, without asking or making a backup! Fortunately, I had it in a general backup (I was only playing with hwd, and I grew convinced that the best way is always to write xorg.conf by hand, resorting to those for analogous machines found googling).

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xalphas

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Registered: 2006-03-09

Posts: 6

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Re: Mouse gestures enabled by default???

Only be careful with things like 'hwd -xa': it deletes the existent /etc/xorg.conf and similars, without asking or making a backup!

hwd -xa doesn't back /etc/X11/xorg.conf up but it asks "if you want to write on xorg.conf bla bla bla" y/n, so user is reminded while doing the process.

patroclo7

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From: Bassano del Grappa, ITALY

Registered: 2006-01-11

Posts: 915

Re: Mouse gestures enabled by default???

I was not sure, but I reproduced it now. Well, 'hwd -x' creates a sample file and DELETES /etc/xorg.conf without any prompt. On the contrary 'hwd -ax' asks "Don't use this autooption if you are unsure!!! Do you want to continue (y/n)?": this is far from clear.

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