X Window: Setting up mouse scroll for OOo Calc to one raw

On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:05:53 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote:

I'm running Debian GNU/Linux SID and my X Window uses Window Maker as a
window manager.

I'm using OpenOffice.org Calc very often and I want to setup mouse
scroll in X so when I scroll with mice then in OOo Calc raws goes
up/down only one raw and not three raws.

So what you are basically seeking is a way for setting the mouse scroll
to a different value other than three lines at a time, right?

I recall this could be set from KDE mouse configuration settings but this
was in the times of KDE3... now in GNOME I see no option under mouse
settings to configure this :-?

My short search in Google gives to me no answers for this issue except
one must setup mouse scroll somewhere in X configurations.

For wheel button there is the option
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

Mmm, AFAIK that's for mapping the wheel button to another one or another
axis (vertically/horizontally), not for controlling the number of the
lines to scroll up/down.

in xorg.conf but this setup only the wheel button and not it's speed or
what that is needed for for setup scrolling in Calc or in other
applications. (Ah, my English! I hope that this explanation was clear..)

I'm not sure how to achieve this. There has to be an option for the
current mouse driver you are using (mouse, evdev...?) but e.g., "man
evdev" returns no option available to control this setting.

Greetings,

Camaleón


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Camaleón writes:

On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:05:53 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote:

I'm running Debian GNU/Linux SID and my X Window uses Window Maker as a
window manager.

I'm using OpenOffice.org Calc very often and I want to setup mouse
scroll in X so when I scroll with mice then in OOo Calc raws goes
up/down only one raw and not three raws.

So what you are basically seeking is a way for setting the mouse scroll
to a different value other than three lines at a time, right?

The way to setup scrolling only one raw in OpenOffice.org Calc using
mouse wheel button is to setup somehow the X Window, eg. to setup mouse
driver to different value then the default, right? If one setup this
successfully I don't know how would this appeares in other applications
than OOo?

in xorg.conf but this setup only the wheel button and not it's speed or
what that is needed for for setup scrolling in Calc or in other
applications.

I'm not sure how to achieve this. There has to be an option for the
current mouse driver you are using (mouse, evdev...?) but e.g., "man
evdev" returns no option available to control this setting.

From the Xorg.0.log I find these lines:

(II) config/udev: Adding input device ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse
(/dev/input/event4)
(**) ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: Applying InputClass "evdev pointer
catchall"
(II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse'
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
(**) ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: always reports core events
(**) ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: Device: "/dev/input/event4"
(--) ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: Found 3 mouse buttons
(--) ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: Found scroll wheel(s)
(--) ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: Found relative axes
(--) ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: Found x and y relative axes
(II) ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: Configuring as mouse
(II) ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: Adding scrollwheel support
(**) ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: EmulateWheelButton: 4,
EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
(**) Option "config_info"
"udev:/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input4/event4"
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse"
(type: MOUSE, id 9)
(II) ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: initialized for relative axes.
(**) ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
(**) ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: (accel) acceleration profile 0
(**) ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
(**) ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4
(II) config/udev: Adding input device ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse
(/dev/input/mouse0)
(II) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring)

Searching with Google using keywords 'evdev scroll wheel' gives to me no
answer for this. Thanks!

Regards, Pal
<http://cspl.me>


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On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:34:25 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote:

Camaleón writes:

On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:05:53 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote:

I'm running Debian GNU/Linux SID and my X Window uses Window Maker as
a window manager.

I'm using OpenOffice.org Calc very often and I want to setup mouse
scroll in X so when I scroll with mice then in OOo Calc raws goes
up/down only one raw and not three raws.

So what you are basically seeking is a way for setting the mouse scroll
to a different value other than three lines at a time, right?

The way to setup scrolling only one raw in OpenOffice.org Calc using
mouse wheel button is to setup somehow the X Window, eg. to setup mouse
driver to different value then the default, right?

Yes, or so I think.

If one setup this successfully I don't know how would this appeares in
other applications than OOo?

Mouse scroll can be set from X server as well as per application basis,
that is, you can set Xorg to use a value (e.g., scroll 3 lines at a time)
that will be used system wide affecting all of the programs but you can
also set a different value for one application which will affect just
that app. Firefox, for instance, can be configured to use a different
mouse scrolling value so I guess there can be others... I don't know for
OpenOffice, though :-?

in xorg.conf but this setup only the wheel button and not it's speed
or what that is needed for for setup scrolling in Calc or in other
applications.

I'm not sure how to achieve this. There has to be an option for the
current mouse driver you are using (mouse, evdev...?) but e.g., "man
evdev" returns no option available to control this setting.

From the Xorg.0.log I find these lines:

(II) config/udev: Adding input device ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse
(/dev/input/event4)
(**) ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: Applying InputClass "evdev pointer catchall"
(II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse'
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so

^^^^^^^^^^^^
(...)

There you have it. So the question is now how to instruct that driver
(evdev) to use a different scrolling value, I see nothing at all a the man
page nor in the docs :-?

Searching with Google using keywords 'evdev scroll wheel' gives to me no
answer for this. Thanks!

Yep, there is not much information on the matter or at least I was unable to
find a clear way to configure it.

I would ask this question directly at Xorg's users mailing list:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

Greetings,

Camaleón


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Camaleón writes:

On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:34:25 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote:

Camaleón writes:

On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:05:53 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote:

I'm running Debian GNU/Linux SID and my X Window uses Window Maker as
a window manager.

I'm using OpenOffice.org Calc very often and I want to setup mouse
scroll in X so when I scroll with mice then in OOo Calc raws goes
up/down only one raw and not three raws.

So what you are basically seeking is a way for setting the mouse scroll
to a different value other than three lines at a time, right?

The way to setup scrolling only one raw in OpenOffice.org Calc using
mouse wheel button is to setup somehow the X Window, eg. to setup mouse
driver to different value then the default, right?

Yes, or so I think.

If one setup this successfully I don't know how would this appeares in
other applications than OOo?

Mouse scroll can be set from X server as well as per application basis,
that is, you can set Xorg to use a value (e.g., scroll 3 lines at a time)
that will be used system wide affecting all of the programs but you can
also set a different value for one application which will affect just
that app. Firefox, for instance, can be configured to use a different
mouse scrolling value so I guess there can be others... I don't know for
OpenOffice, though :-?

in xorg.conf but this setup only the wheel button and not it's speed
or what that is needed for for setup scrolling in Calc or in other
applications.

I'm not sure how to achieve this. There has to be an option for the
current mouse driver you are using (mouse, evdev...?) but e.g., "man
evdev" returns no option available to control this setting.

From the Xorg.0.log I find these lines:

(II) config/udev: Adding input device ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse
(/dev/input/event4)
(**) ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: Applying InputClass "evdev pointer catchall"
(II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse'
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so

^^^^^^^^^^^^
(...)

There you have it. So the question is now how to instruct that driver
(evdev) to use a different scrolling value, I see nothing at all a the man
page nor in the docs :-?

Searching with Google using keywords 'evdev scroll wheel' gives to me no
answer for this. Thanks!

Yep, there is not much information on the matter or at least I was unable to
find a clear way to configure it.

I would ask this question directly at Xorg's users mailing list:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

I shall do that and if find there the solution, I shall write down here
too.

Regards, Pal
<http://cspl.me>


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On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:40:03 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote:

Camaleón writes:

(...)

Searching with Google using keywords 'evdev scroll wheel' gives to me
no answer for this. Thanks!

Yep, there is not much information on the matter or at least I was
unable to find a clear way to configure it.

I would ask this question directly at Xorg's users mailing list:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

I shall do that and if find there the solution, I shall write down here
too.

There are also Debian Xorg developers and packagers posting in this list,
let me edit the subject line of this thread to see if we can put this
issue into their "radar" so they can give you some feedback :-)

Greetings,

Camaleón


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