Need help with M$ touchmouse

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings all;

I have a wireless M$ Explorer Touchmouse, and the touch pad is buggier 
than a 10 day old carcass.

Specifically, the side scrolling is driving me crazy, and its not a long 
trip. ;)

When it works, its 20x more sensitive sideways than vertically, and I 
can't get my fingers far enough away from the pad to stop its crazy 
behavior, and still rest them in a comfy location for button pushing.

Is there anything I can put in an /etc/X11 file that will shut the side 
scroll function off, but leave the vertical finger drags working?

Even that goes away quite frequently, and I have to turn the mouse over, 
shut it off for a second or two & turn it back on, at which point it works 
fairly well but will eventually become intermittent in its response for an 
hour or so before completely dying, the the screen cursor still follows it 
well, and the two buttons work well.  But I've blamed that on a buggy 
mouse.

This is extremely distracting when I am writing code in geany (gedit does 
not have a sideways scroll, but it has trashed important source code file 
entirly too often, geany never has) because I have to drag the bar on the 
bottom back the the left stop in order to see what I am writing.  I need 
help since the mouse makers figured out how to sell the high priced 
versions by putting the optical eye way back under the palm of our hands 
instead of up under your fingers in the #<$50 models.  So the <$50 mice 
aren't at all intuitive to use because you are forced to move the whole 
arm when using them.

Thanks guys & gals.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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