IBM X40 - scroll with middle mouse button?

[johfo]

Hi,
I have just installed kubuntu 8.04 for the first time...and I'm a totally new linux user

Everything seams to work just perfect, except that the middle/second mouse button doesn't allow me to scroll like in windows. In windows I can hold down the middle (blue) mouse button and scroll in both vertical and horizontal with the little red mouse-stick.

Is it possible to configure that in kubuntu 8.04?

[russlar]

Re: IBM X40 - scroll with middle mouse button?

yes. put this in your Xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Trackpoint"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"CorePointer"
	Option		"Device"		"/dev/input/mice"
	Option		"Protocol"		"ImPS/2"
	Option		"ZAxisMapping"		"4 5"
	Option		"Emulate3Buttons"	"true"
	Option		"EmulateWheel"     "true"
	Option		"EmulateWheelButton"  "2"
EndSection

If you haven't already, I strongly suggest looking around at thinkwiki.org. there are lots of how-to's and workarounds there.

[johfo]

Re: IBM X40 - scroll with middle mouse button?

Thanks for trying to help me...but as I wrote...I'm TOTALLY new to this with Linux
I will try to learn and I have tried to search...but it's not that easy to see the wood because of all trees...

But I would be very happy to have a fully usable kubuntu computer quite fast...otherwise I will have to waste time to make it dual boot with windows...and the reason I started to try out kubuntu is to learn and get rid of windows...

Can you or someone give me some more detaild description of how to edit that xorg.conf file?
I tried to open it...and it opened in some app called "Kate". I tried to paste in the code in the bottom of the file and save it, but I was not allowed to do that. I a message like (translated from swedish)
Failed to create a backup
A backup could not be created. If something goes wrong when it's saved, data can be lost..."
And when I tries to save it anyway I get a message about if I have the rights to save the file.
From what I have read about kubuntu I don't need any root-user. My ordinary user has admin rights...is that correct?

And in grey text in the file it says:
"# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg"
I guess it's good to have that file automatically updated...but how do I do that...the last row in the descripiton?

Best regards,
Johan

[johfo]

Re: IBM X40 - scroll with middle mouse button?

I have done some reading and managed to modify the xorg.conf file (the trick was kdesudo!)
But...unfortunately it didn't helped. The middle/scroll/blue-button still doesn't work. Everythin works like before.
The xorg.conf looks like this now:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Trackpoint"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "EmulateWheel" "true"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
EndSection

Someone who knows why and what to do?

[russlar]

Re: IBM X40 - scroll with middle mouse button?

Jofo, use what I posted earlioer in the thread. 8.10 doesn't use xorg.conf

[flarson]

Re: IBM X40 - scroll with middle mouse button?

8.10 uses /etc/X11/xorg.conf if it exists, but in many cases it is not needed.