I'm trying to change my mouse configuration.

I have a Intellimouse with wheel. My xorg.conf looks like this...


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



The problem is that the mouse wheel button (not the scroll) is
hypersensitive. So I end up pasting crap into things when I am trying
to scroll.

So I want to disable this button and use 3 button emulation instead.


I tried using xmodmap to change button 2 to something harmless (like
7). But this also takes the 3 button emulation and so leaves me
without an effective middle mouse button.

I'm running on Ubuntu5. Any suggestions welcome.

Phil

Phillip Lord wrote:

>
>
>
> I'm trying to change my mouse configuration.
>
> I have a Intellimouse with wheel. My xorg.conf looks like
> this...
>
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "CorePointer"
> Option "Device"
> "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"

> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
>
>
> The problem is that the mouse wheel button (not the scroll) is
> hypersensitive. So I end up pasting crap into things when I am
> trying to scroll.
>
> So I want to disable this button and use 3 button emulation
> instead.
>
>
> I tried using xmodmap to change button 2 to something harmless
> (like 7). But this also takes the 3 button emulation and so
> leaves me without an effective middle mouse button.
>
> I'm running on Ubuntu5. Any suggestions welcome.
>

Remove Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Add Option "Buttons" "5"
and then your mouse should act correctly.

Ransom
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>>>>> "Ransom" == Ransom <Ransom_See_my_sig@bogus_email.net> writes:

Ransom> Phillip Lord wrote:

>>
>> The problem is that the mouse wheel button (not the scroll) is
>> hypersensitive. So I end up pasting crap into things when I am
>> trying to scroll.
>>
>> So I want to disable this button and use 3 button emulation
>> instead.
>>
>>

Ransom> Remove Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Add Option "Buttons"
Ransom> "5" and then your mouse should act correctly.


I'm afraid not.

Perhaps I have not described the problem properly.

The mouse has three buttons, with the mouse wheel providing the middle
button.

But this is very sensitive. So when I scroll, I often accidentally
click as well, which ends up pasting some selection in into what ever
I am trying to scroll over.

So I want to disable the mouse wheel button, whilst keeping mouse
wheel scrolling. Then I want to use three button emulation to get
middle mouse button functionality.

And alternative would be to have middle mouse button disabled while
scrolling with the wheel is happening. This would be the best option
of all.

I'm sure I had something like this working before.

Phil