[Xorg] why is Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" needed for my scrollmouse to work

Kristian Høgsberg krh at bitplanet.net
Mon Aug 23 11:42:41 PDT 2004


Egbert Eich wrote:
> Jim Gettys writes:
>  > Well, that looks easy.
>  > 
>  > Unless someone knows why it would be a bad idea, maybe we
>  > should consider it.
> 
> I haven't really looked into this problem, but there are mice around
> with more than 3 'real' buttons; I could imagine where this limits 
> the ways these mice can be configured.

Yeah, somebody elsewhere in the thread brought this up, but the thing is 
that the patch doesn't hard-code anything it just sets a sensible 
default.  It can still be overridden.

Kristian



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