Re: recent CURRENT and moused(): inverted X axis on mouse

[Chris]

On 2025-09-08 22:48, A FreeBSD User wrote:

Am Tage des Herren Mon, 08 Sep 2025 17:39:06 -0700
Chris <bsd-li...@bsdforge.com> schrieb:

On 2025-09-07 22:50, A FreeBSD User wrote:
> Hello,
>
> since the @new@ moused daemon has been ontroduced lately I face a small but
> nasty change in
> X11 which is results in an inverted mouse pointer movement when using a
> mouse
> wheel. The mouse
> is a USB mouse, in one particular case a Razer DeathAddre V3, but some other
> box
> uses Logitech
> MX518 or similar - same issue. Disabling moused() reverts situation to the
> situation I'm used
> to, but with the consequence not having a useful mousepointer on the
> console.
>
> In some rare, sporadic cases, without moused() enabled, X11 (using
> x11-wm/windowmaker) looses
> the mousepointer - which never comes back to live again, even
> stopping/restarting xdm which
> restarts Xorg server (see /etc/ttys).
>
> Bug or expected behaviour and misconfiguration/outdated config on my side?

Apologies if this is already answered. But I'm catching up on my email. :)

you?
Is that setting inverted? Just a thought. :)

HTH

--Chris
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> oh

Does your DE allow for switching left-hand v right-hand? Will that fix it for

Hello Chris,

nothing answered, so far, no need to apologize ;-) Thanks.

Well, since a couple of years for now I use moused enabled as well as an
appropriate X11 mouse
driver configuration - untouched so far.

z-axis mapping, but this comes into play when using a simple desktop.


also kept very

unchanged, so
far.


device infrastructure. I'd like to understand - to conceive a solution.

On the console - where moused() will be mostly effective - I do not utilize sophistcation in I do not know whether X11 does have a simple mapping of left- or righthand mouse usage, I guess you'll have to map this for yourself "per pedes" - x11-wm/windowmaker is simple at this point. I guess when left/righthand would have been changed or is about to change, also someone has to take care for the mouse buttons left/right. They are I will check also for the ZAxisMapping in the InputClass section of X11, maybe I can map the propper way more easisly there. But that doesn't anser the question what changed in the new

No. I guess it might not solve the culprit. But as I don't use windowmaker I couldn't know if it was true on that. It's just that it's an option on all the gtk based DE's I've used as well as KDE and Plasma to reverse the mouse for "handedness" in their control panels. So I was hoping it might be an option for you. Maybe the option became inadvertently changed. But I guess not. :-(

Does your Xorg log show any interesting clues?
Sorry. That's all I've got.

Kind regards,
Oliver

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