X11 6.9 issue -- option "ZAxisMapping" -- "4 5" vs "4 5 6 7"

[Garrett Cooper]

martinko wrote:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>   
>> martinko <martinkov at pobox.sk> writes:
>>     
>>> if i scroll my mouse wheel too fast, i'm suddenly moving in history
>>> instead of scrolling the page. one quick finger movement is enough to
>>> trigger this. very annoying.
>>>       
>> Here's an entry in Novell's bugzilla for a similar issue in Linux:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=144682
>>
>> I believe the information is equally applicable to FreeBSD.  To
>> translate and summarize, ums(4) needs to learn to distinguish between
>> IntelliMouse and IntelliMouse Explorer, becaue they have slightly
>> different protocols; moused(8) already knows about this and handles it
>> correctly, but only for PS/2 mice.
>>
>> DES
>>     
>
> DES,
>
> i'm not quite sure this is the source of my issue as i have no an
> intellimouse (pls see my original message).
>
> m.
>   
DES,
    Not sure if this issue has been worked out yet on your end, but if 
you're speaking strictly of firefox you can open up a browser window, 
type in about:config in the browser location bar, then type in "middle" 
for your filter, find the option that says loadContentURL and set it to 
false. It's an annoying setting for all X11 people (since middle mouse 
button stuff is devoted as pasting for some odd reason), but I guess 
that was thought to be a useful option by the Mozilla people for some 
odd reason. Turning it off will disable the seemingly random google 
searching/url loading.
    Also, the ZAxismapping thing helps define layout for the mouse 
buttons. Depending on what order you choose, your behavior of your mouse 
will differ. Loading up xev will help you "catch" events for your mouse 
and determine what button is what on your intellimouse, then properly 
map the buttons to match any desired behavior you have. For instance, I 
have a 5 button intellimouse right now and the button mapping in Gentoo 
for ZAxisMapping is "4 5"; however, when I did have a 7 button 
intellimouse, the AFAIK the line was for ZAxisMapping was "6 7 4 5". The 
protocol used in xorg.conf for both cases is "ExplorerPS/2", because the 
other protocol mappings did not work as well for me for some odd reason. 
These ZAxisMapping settings combined with xmodmap and the imwheel 
daemon, a third-party program for capturing mouse events (which is only 
required in Linux and not FreeBSD IIRC), allows me to use the forward 
and back buttons in firefox and thunderbird, which is all of the 
functionality that I really want with my extra mouse buttons.
    There are plenty of documents out there to help you configure your 
intellimouse, mostly in the Gentoo world because it seems like more of 
that crowd has had problems with setting up their intellimice ;). Please 
note that not all items in howtos and help documents will apply to 
FreeBSD if you look at Gentoo items though...
    HTH,
-Garrett