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

Liviu Andronic <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.opera.linux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 9/15/09, Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen <[email protected]> wrote:
>  > 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".
>
Life-saver. I disabled Buttons 6 and 7 in mouse set-up, and now
horizontal scrolling acts as vertical when the horizontal bar is
absent. No more uncontrolled "back"s and "forward"s.
Thank you both
Liviu
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