Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:34:25 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: > >> Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:05:53 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: >>> >>>> I'm running Debian GNU/Linux SID and my X Window uses Window Maker as >>>> a window manager. >>>> >>>> I'm using OpenOffice.org Calc very often and I want to setup mouse >>>> scroll in X so when I scroll with mice then in OOo Calc raws goes >>>> up/down only one raw and not three raws. >>> >>> So what you are basically seeking is a way for setting the mouse scroll >>> to a different value other than three lines at a time, right? >> >> The way to setup scrolling only one raw in OpenOffice.org Calc using >> mouse wheel button is to setup somehow the X Window, eg. to setup mouse >> driver to different value then the default, right? > > Yes, or so I think. > >> If one setup this successfully I don't know how would this appeares in >> other applications than OOo? > > Mouse scroll can be set from X server as well as per application basis, > that is, you can set Xorg to use a value (e.g., scroll 3 lines at a time) > that will be used system wide affecting all of the programs but you can > also set a different value for one application which will affect just > that app. Firefox, for instance, can be configured to use a different > mouse scrolling value so I guess there can be others... I don't know for > OpenOffice, though :-? > >>>> in xorg.conf but this setup only the wheel button and not it's speed >>>> or what that is needed for for setup scrolling in Calc or in other >>>> applications. >>> >>> I'm not sure how to achieve this. There has to be an option for the >>> current mouse driver you are using (mouse, evdev...?) but e.g., "man >>> evdev" returns no option available to control this setting. >> >> From the Xorg.0.log I find these lines: >> >> (II) config/udev: Adding input device ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse >> (/dev/input/event4) >> (**) ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: Applying InputClass "evdev pointer catchall" >> (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse' >> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > (...) > > There you have it. So the question is now how to instruct that driver > (evdev) to use a different scrolling value, I see nothing at all a the man > page nor in the docs :-? > >> Searching with Google using keywords 'evdev scroll wheel' gives to me no >> answer for this. Thanks! > > Yep, there is not much information on the matter or at least I was unable to > find a clear way to configure it. > > I would ask this question directly at Xorg's users mailing list: > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
I shall do that and if find there the solution, I shall write down here too. -- Regards, Pal <http://cspl.me> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8762h7jwbg.fsf@debian-asztal.excito
