On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 02:29:59PM -0700, JJ wrote: > It appears that there is no way to adjust the mouse > scroll rate in Gnome or X11. If any developers are > reading this, it would be wonderful if one day a user > could, with one setting, control the number of lines > that a wheel mouse scrolls by per notch. As for me, I It's hard to do this, because the mouse wheel doesn't actually send a "scroll yourself N lines" signal. Generally, it's just interpreted as clicks of mouse buttons 4 and 5 (for forward and backwards), and it's up to the app (or GUI toolkit or widget) to decide what to do about that. [...] > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" That is, "interpret changes on the scroll wheel as clicks of button 4 and 5". -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
