On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA <bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 17/01/13 07:57, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> >> With GTK based apps I use the right mouse-button to page up/down, >> the mouse-wheel to scroll up/down in small steps, and the left >> mouse-button to position the slider freely. That's not specific >> to GNOME. >> >> -- > > > > We are a family of track ball users, I have three on my desk. They > have no "scroll wheel," but some have four buttons, none of which > seem to improve the rate of scrolling. I press the right button and > move the slider with the ball just as you do with the wheel I > believe but on a large list moving about the slide one centimeter > goes through five or six hundred messages, even lists of 150 are > hard to deal with at that rate. > > What appears to be specific to F-18, and Gnome I guess, I've used > XFCE only for a long time, is that the scroll buttons are missing > and I wonder why? I know F-18 is what it is and my complaining wont > change it ... When I first started with Xfce, I was unhappy with the response of my laptop's touchpad. After much research, I found that I had to add a file 10-touchpad.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ as follows (between the ====='s below). Perhaps you need something similar for your track balls. ===== # See: # http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Input_device_configuration # https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics/10-synaptics.conf_example # Use # synclient -l # to see all current options Section "InputClass" Identifier "tap-by-default" MatchIsTouchpad "on" MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" Option "TapButton1" "1" Option "TapButton2" "2" Option "TapButton3" "3" Option "FastTaps" "on" EndSection ===== > Thank you, > Bob > -- > http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD > > box7 > > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- Dale Dellutri -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
