disable scroll mouse

Skunk Worx skunkworx at verizon.net
Mon Jan 15 01:12:46 UTC 2007


Skunk Worx wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 08:07 -0800, Skunk Worx wrote:
>>> I really dislike the default behavior of the pointer and scroll mouse
>>> on Fedora.
>>>
>>> For example if I have two applications open, and slide the mouse from 
>>> one to the other, the focus does not follow. I am okay with that,
>>> stay with me.
>> In Gnome this can be changed by going to: System->Preferences->Windows
> 
> No that's not it.
> 
> You are thinking of focus-follows mouse, which is a different issue. I 
> have it off, and the pointer, when scrolling with the mouse wheel, is 
> both focusing and selecting children of unfocused windows.
> 
> Windows and mac do not exhibit this dangerous behavior. And this is 
> potentially dangerous. I definitely do not expect a scrolled mouse 
> pointer to auto focus and select widgets without a click on my part!
> 
> ---
> John
> 

On my mac mini, which uses the same mouse as my fc6 (via kvm), the 
scroll wheel only seems to affect sliders (pane, volume). I have yet to 
see a combo box change using only the scroll wheel. This feels right to me.

Playing with FC6 and the Gimp, OO Writer, OO Impress...they all seem to 
do insane things with the scroll wheel in combo boxes.

The values change and appear to be current and active yet it is a crap 
shoot as to whether they actually affect the next activity. OpenOffice 
in general doesn't...although the line width in Impress takes affect 
right away.

Gimp seems to make all scrolled combos take effect right away.

---
John




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