GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 666998
Missing "wheel mouse emulation" option in mouse settings
Last modified: 2021-06-09 16:01:43 UTC
Evdev comes with an option that allows to trigger wheel mouse events using an hold button and mouse mouvements. This is useless when using a regular mouse, but very ergonomic when using either a trackball or a trackpad (the small stick in the center of certain keyboards). It would be nice if gnome control center allowed to make these changes. The related xinput parameters are the following : Evdev Wheel Emulation (264): 1 Evdev Wheel Emulation Axes (265): 6, 7, 4, 5 Evdev Wheel Emulation Inertia (266): 10 Evdev Wheel Emulation Timeout (267): 200 Evdev Wheel Emulation Button (268): 8 The interface should at least allow to set the following options : - enable wheel mouse emulation - enable it also for horizontal axis - set the button used for emulation For inertia and timeout, default values should do for most users.
(In reply to comment #0) > Evdev comes with an option that allows to trigger wheel mouse events using an > hold button and mouse mouvements. This is useless when using a regular mouse, > but very ergonomic when using either a trackball or a trackpad (the small stick > in the center of certain keyboards). That's called a trackpoint, or pointing stick: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrackPoint A trackpad's the same as a touchpad.
I second this request, but want to add that it recently got harder to implement now that we have the fancy new clickpads without dedicated buttons...
(upstream ref for what I just said: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70780)
It would be sweet to have this option, since it is default on every Lenovo Windows machine.
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