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AndreyTarkovsky

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[Solved] Can not get my mouse scrolling working on all apps

My mouse scroll is working fine in apps like qterminal, firefox, telegram and hexchat... But I can not use it on Libreoffice and Caja, for example. It's a simple Logitech mouse and I'm on PekWM.

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seth

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Re: [Solved] Can not get my mouse scrolling working on all apps

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GT … w_managers ?

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AndreyTarkovsky

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Re: [Solved] Can not get my mouse scrolling working on all apps

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GT … w_managers ?

Well, if you mean this

GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS=1

Didn't work for me.

seth

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Re: [Solved] Can not get my mouse scrolling working on all apps

Yes, it's a known bug in gtk.
How and where did you define that?

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AndreyTarkovsky

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Re: [Solved] Can not get my mouse scrolling working on all apps

Yes, it's a known bug in gtk.
How and where did you define that?

define what?

seth

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Re: [Solved] Can not get my mouse scrolling working on all apps

The environment variable…

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AndreyTarkovsky

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Re: [Solved] Can not get my mouse scrolling working on all apps

The environment variable…

I did on my qterminal using PekWM, should I define it before open any gtk app?

seth

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Re: [Solved] Can not get my mouse scrolling working on all apps

Yes.
Entering that somewhere™ does pretty much nothing.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/En … _variables

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AndreyTarkovsky

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Re: [Solved] Can not get my mouse scrolling working on all apps

The environment variable…

I did on my qterminal using PekWM, should I define it before open any gtk app?

ohh, I got it:

GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS=1 lowriter

That worked, thank you very much, man.
Now I will add this to all my other launch options.

seth

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Re: [Solved] Can not get my mouse scrolling working on all apps

No, that's insane.
Just export it in your session script.

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AndreyTarkovsky

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Re: [Solved] Can not get my mouse scrolling working on all apps

No, that's insane.
Just export it in your session script.

Ok, better idea, thank you very much.

AndreyTarkovsky

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Re: [Solved] Can not get my mouse scrolling working on all apps

No, that's insane.
Just export it in your session script.

Hey man, I did add the env variable to my ~/.xinitrc but didn't work. Should I add to another file?

seth

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Re: [Solved] Can not get my mouse scrolling working on all apps

This depends on how you start the session - xinitrc is only (by default) executed by xinit/startx and xdm - oder DMs (lightdm, GDM, SDDM,…) don't execute it at all.

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Ropid

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Re: [Solved] Can not get my mouse scrolling working on all apps

Hey man, I did add the env variable to my ~/.xinitrc but didn't work. Should I add to another file?

If you use a display manager you can create a file "~/.xprofile". The contents could look like this:

#!/bin/bash
export GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS=1

Another way is a file "~/.pam_environment" or system-wide in "/etc/environment". Those files are not scripts so you don't use the "export" word in them, you just write "name=value":

GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS=1

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AndreyTarkovsky

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Re: [Solved] Can not get my mouse scrolling working on all apps

Hey man, I did add the env variable to my ~/.xinitrc but didn't work. Should I add to another file?

If you use a display manager you can create a file "~/.xprofile". The contents could look like this:

#!/bin/bash
export GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS=1

Another way is a file "~/.pam_environment" or system-wide in "/etc/environment". Those files are not scripts so you don't use the "export" word in them, you just write "name=value":

GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS=1

You are awesome, thank you very much!