Re: "scroll wheel" on touchpad in HP laptop

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Ron DuPlain <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Rainer M Krug <[email protected]> wrote:
>  > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Ron DuPlain <[email protected]> wrote:
>  >  > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:45 AM, Rainer M Krug <[email protected]> wrote:
>  >  >  > Hi
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  >  my HP nx8220 laptop has a "scroll wheel" on the right side of the
>  >  >  >  touch pad which was working earlier, but sometime it stopped working
>  >  >  >  under Fluxbox (probably after an update).
>  >  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  >  For clarification, do you see scroll wheel action when running xev?
>  >  >  With both my mouse scroll wheel and touch pad slider, I see these
>  >  >  actions as "button 4" (up) and "button 5" (down).
>  >
>  >  Yes, I do.
>  >  And the strange thing is that, after I followed the description in the
>  >  other email concerning the additional keys, it is working again. Very
>  >  strang. I will see if it still works when I log out and in again.
>  >
>  >  Thanks for the moment,
>  >
>  >  Rainer
>  >
>
>  It sounds like the keys file had errors in it previously, which could
>  have caused fluxbox to misinterpret your scrolling actions.

might be - but now idea how I fixed it.

>
>  Out of curiosity, was the scroll function not working for all
>  applications, or just not with fluxbox (e.g. desktop scrolling to
>  change workspaces)?

I think it was not working at all. The mousewheel on the external
mouse was working as expected.

>
>  I'm interested to here how things work with a fresh session...

I risked it ... and it is still working.


>
>  Ron
>
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>  > >
>  >  >  -Ron
>  >  >
>  >  >
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>  >  >  Ron DuPlain <[email protected]>
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>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  >  >  Any ideas how I can activate or get it working again?
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  >  Thanks
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  >  Rainer
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  >
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>  >  >  >  Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation
>  >  >  >  Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  >  Plant Conservation Unit
>  >  >  >  Department of Botany
>  >  >  >  University of Cape Town
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Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation
Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

Plant Conservation Unit
Department of Botany
University of Cape Town
Rondebosch 7701
South Africa

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