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#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 12:20 PM

Hello Gentoo users,

I have a ThinkPad laptop with the cool TrackPoint device. This is very
useful but unfortunately I cannot use it for scrolling in Firefox as
it produces both the scroll action and a go back command.

In every other app i know scrolling works: The page moves up or down
the way I want when holding the middle mouse button and pushing the
TrackPoint into the direction I want. This is the same with Firefox,
besides the thing that Firefox is used to go backward during this
action.

I have no clue why this happens. Please write if you know why or even
better how to fix that.

This is a port of my X.org config:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SHMconfig" "on"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Other Pointers"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "Auto"
# Enable vertical Scrolling with TrackPoint; works with other
mice, too
Option "EmulateWheel" "on"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Greetings
Daniel Böhmer

#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 12:20 PM

boehmerdaniel@web.de wrote:

> In every other app i know scrolling works: The page moves up or down
> the way I want when holding the middle mouse button and pushing the
> TrackPoint into the direction I want. This is the same with Firefox,
> besides the thing that Firefox is used to go backward during this
> action.

Did you play with the "Preferences/Navigator/Mouse Wheel" in Firefox?

I had to do that on my crappy HP dv9076.

--

//Aho

#3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 12:20 PM

Hi,

> Did you play with the "Preferences/Navigator/Mouse Wheel" in Firefox?
>
> I had to do that on my crappy HP dv9076.

What kind of preferences do you mean? I cannot find it in the
preferences window (FF 2.something). Please describe this more
clearly...

Greetings
Daniel

#4 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 12:20 PM

On Jan 15, 2:36 am, boehmerdan...@web.de wrote:
> I have a ThinkPad laptop with the cool TrackPoint device. This is very
> useful but unfortunately I cannot use it for scrolling in Firefox as
> it produces both the scroll action and a go back command.

See http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to...ntal_scrolling
The solution is to disable the navigation action when doing horizontal
scrolling.

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