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Fix mouse wheel post syntax

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James McDonald
2020-05-11 13:34:10 +02:00
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I’ve been using the beta of MacOS X Lion for a few weeks now, and after a few days of initial annoyance I’ve grown to really like the inverted sense of the scroll wheel. I recall when I first got one, in fact, and found the direction downright confusing. This seems to have been an easy behaviour to unlearn.
I've been using the beta of MacOS X Lion for a few weeks now, and after a few days of initial annoyance I've grown to really like the inverted sense of the scroll wheel. I recall when I first got one, in fact, and found the direction downright confusing. This seems to have been an easy behaviour to unlearn.
My desktop box at work runs Debian, and I wanted the same behaviour there to stop me getting split-brain and dribbling a lot. There was a time when a quick change in xorg.conf to `ZAxisMapping "5 4"` would do this, but it’s not so the modern age of HIDs and evdevs. After a bit of messing about I figured out how to flip the scroll wheel. This will probably work for Ubuntu too.
My desktop box at work runs Debian, and I wanted the same behaviour there to
stop me getting split-brain and dribbling a lot. There was a time when a quick
change in xorg.conf to `ZAxisMapping "5 4"` would do this, but it's not so the
modern age of HIDs and evdevs. After a bit of messing about I figured out how
to flip the scroll wheel. This will probably work for Ubuntu too.
* Open the file `/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf`
* Look for the section with `MatchIsPointer "on"`. It’s at the top by default.
* Add this line:
`Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 5 4 6 7 8"</li>
<p>` </ul>
Add more buttons if you need them for your mouse. The section should look like:
```
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 5 4 6 7 8"
```
* Add more buttons if you need them for your mouse. The section should look like:
`<br />
Section "InputClass"<br />
Identifier "evdev pointer catchall"<br />
MatchIsPointer "on"<br />
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"<br />
Driver "evdev"<br />
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 5 4 6 7 8"<br />
EndSection<br />
`
```
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev pointer catchall"
MatchIsPointer "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 5 4 6 7 8"
EndSection
```
That&#8217;s it! Just restart X.
That's it! Just restart X.