KDE scrollbars react to the wrong mouse buttons

[Erik]

Andrew Kar wrote:

>On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 01:31 pm, Erik wrote:
>  
>
>>xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 4 5"
>>but xev still shows the original button numbers (for example 9 and 10
>>for the wheel). This it is not changed and KDE still does not get it.
>>    
>>
>
>It is not that KDE doesn't respect it, all linux apps will be the same . It is 
>a well known problem in X that for some reason it always considers the wheel 
>to be the last two buttons which is silly because there are all different 
>button mice out there. Also X can not by itself tell the number of buttons 
>which is why in your case you need to tell it 10 button and z-axis is 9 and 
>10
>
>A million people have had this problem and fixed it with xev with the main 
>pronlem being that they were not typing the line correctly. Some systems need 
>X restarted after the change. xev really needs to run at X startup so it 
>should be added to your /home/USERNAME/.Xmodmap file or either (or both) of 
>your ~/.xinitrc and ~/.xsession files. 
>
>Persevere; It DOES work...
>
Yes it DOES indeed work. But only after I disabled the touchpad. But I
want them both.
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