[ltp] Horizontal scrolling with EmulateWheel and trackpoint

[Richard Neill]

Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 12:28:54 +0200, Dominik Riebeling wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>On 7/16/06, Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@tikei.de> wrote:
>>
>>>So, what is the right axis mapping for horizontal scrolling?
>>
>>I use the following settings:
>>
>>Section "InputDevice"
>>       Identifier  "Mouse0"
>>       Driver      "mouse"
>>       Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>>       Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>>       Option "EmulateWheel" "yes"
>>       Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
>>       Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7"
>>       Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5"
>>       Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>>       Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
>>EndSection
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I still got only vertical scrolling with these settings, no horizontal.
> For whatever reason, I had to use 8 and 9 instead of 6 and 7. Now it
> works.

Do you, by any chance, have  /etc/X11/xinit.d/mouse_buttons:
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xmodmap -e 'pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5'
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?

It's present on Mandriva, and, as far as I can tell, has only one 
purpose: namely to totally mess up the mouse buttons, and confuse the user!

Richard