mouse wheel problems
Claude Jones
claude_jones at levitjames.com
Wed Aug 16 12:46:53 UTC 2006
I don't remember when this started because I originally attributed it to a
failing mouse, but I just replaced the mouse and the symptoms remain. The
problem is that scrolling with the wheel is causing strange behavior. This
manifests when I want to scroll back/up-ward; if I scroll down a screen, the
screen just does what it's supposed to. If I reverse direction, various
strange things happen depending on the program I'm in. In Kmail, I just get a
menu popping up as if I'd right-clicked; in Firefox, I get the menu, and
then, if I keep scrolling, the page jumps to some seemingly completely
unrelated web page - there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to what
page it jumps to - these are not pages that I've previously visited or
anything like that.
Anyone have an idea what could be going on? I've looked at the various
preferences in KDE Control Center, which is the desktop I use, but there
doesn't seem to anything amiss... I tried System Control Center, but it says
system-config-mouse is not installed - I checked the repos and
system-config-mouse doesn't seem to be available. This is on FC5 with all the
latest patches - currently running the 2157 kernel, though behavior is the
same with the 2174 kernel.
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Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA
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