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".
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