Re: How to (really) disable mouse gestures (or horizontal scrolling)?

Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.opera.linux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Espen Sand <[email protected]> writes:

> On Monday 14 September 2009 22:23:25 Liviu Andronic wrote:
>> Dear all
>> How do I (really) disable mouse gestures? I did uncheck the relevant
>> option in Advanced > Shortcuts, but I still get unwarranted
>> mouse-triggered behaviour.
>> 
>> On my laptop, the touchpad has vertical and horizontal scrolling
>> enabled. The vertical functions as expected. The horizontal, however,
>> will always scroll the history: horizontal scrolling to the left will
>> access the oldest pages in history, while to the right the newest
>> ones. The behaviour is easily, unintentionally triggered by the
>> sensitive touchpad, hence it can quickly become annoying.
>> Thank you
>
> Sounds to me like the touchpad generates some sort of key sequence 
> when you use it horizontally. If that is a case a keyboard shortcut might be 
> activated in Opera. I guess you should have a look in the active keyboard 
> file (same place in prefs, Advanced > Shortcuts). The "Application" and 
> "Browser Window" sections are relevant in this case.
>
> It is probably useful to use the program xev to see what kind of events 
> the horizontal movements in the touchpad generate.

You don't think it generates mouse button 6 and 7?  If that is set up as
back/forwards it could have the described symptoms.  In my
prefs->advanced->shortcuts, in the "mouse setup" I find that Button7 is
indeed "forward" and Button6 is "back".

eirik
--
Opera-Linux: https://list.opera.com/mailman/listinfo/opera-linux
More lists: https://list.opera.com/mailman/listinfo/
Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.