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syazhani

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Registered: 2007-09-05

Posts: 16

Mouse problem -- keep scrolling down nonstop for most apps

After a very big pacman -Syu followed by yaourt -Syu my mouse has become buggy. In most apps it keeps scrolling down, even if I turned off the wireless mouse. As long as the cursor is on affected windows, it'll scroll.

I am aware there is a very recent mouse bug related to xorg-server update, but to my understanding it has been fixed as of xorg 1.10.1.

Please advise.

syazhani

Member

Registered: 2007-09-05

Posts: 16

Re: Mouse problem -- keep scrolling down nonstop for most apps

Upon further investigation, I discovered that it actually is my mouse wheel Right event that is firing nonstop. That explains why it affects only some stuff -- those that interpret right scroll as down scroll.

A nasty workaround I'm using now is to install imwheel and have something like this to block Right wheel combinations:

None,       Right, None,0                                                                                                                                                       
Shift_L,    Right, None,0                                                                                                                                                       
Control_L,  Right, None,0                                                                                                                                                       
Alt_L,      Right, None,0                                                                                                                                                       
Meta_L,     Right, None,0                                                                                                                                                       
Shift_R,    Right, None,0                                                                                                                                                       
Control_R,  Right, None,0                                                                                                                                                       
Alt_R,      Right, None,0                                                                                                                                                       
Meta_R,     Right, None,0   

But it still fires when I press any other key or mouse button (e.g. holding a mouse button will fire Right scroll event as well).

Is there any way to totally ignore a mouse button? It's not even a frequently used button.

rwd

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Registered: 2009-02-08

Posts: 671

Re: Mouse problem -- keep scrolling down nonstop for most apps

you can set  most, if not any, mouse feature either permanently in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/(...).conf, or on the fly using xinput. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mouse_acceleration

Last edited by rwd (2011-04-24 07:38:09)