Wheel and Buttons for DEXXA Mouse

[Jerry]

Hi there!
I installed fedora core last night (so I'm a real newbie!) and got it to run after some problems with my nvidia graphics card.
I use a DEXXA wireless optical ps/2 mouse which has a wheel and additional buttons on the left and right side. With Win XP I often used the buttons to go back in internet explorer, not to speak of the wheel. Is there any way to get these buttons and the wheel to work?
Appreciate any help!
Jerry

[Jman]

The place to start is Main Menu > System Settings > Mouse. There aren't that many options, but you can enable some of your buttons.

For sure you can get a generic ps/2 wheel mouse to work. I use my wheel all the time. Not sure about the other buttons.

[redhat71]

Originally posted by Jman
For sure you can get a generic ps/2 wheel mouse to work.

do you happen to know how to customize the way it works?

by default it only scrolls up/down a few lines when i move the wheel, i'd like to change that to, for example: 30 lines

i've figured out how to do that with firefox, but not all the apps are like firefox which offers an option for customization
so, i'm looking for a system wide default setting that applies to all the apps

[Jerry]

thank you, the wheel works now, I've set it to microsoft intellimouse (ps/2).
Anybody have an idea how to make the side buttons work?

[Jman]

Neither side buttons or the global wheel setting will be easy.

I found this tutorial (http://www.linuxforum.com/linux_tutorials/70/1.php), but it involves editing configuration files and compiling software.

I don't know of a global wheel setting.

If the wheel is a button it should be the middle button. Try middle clicking a file in the file manager and dragging it somewhere, there should be a move, copy, link menu.

I know you want your mouse, but in Mozilla use Alt + Left Arrow and Right Arrow to go back and forward.

[Jerry]

sound great, thank you! Doesn't seem too difficult, I'll try it sometime.
Cheers
Jerry

[redhat71]

Originally posted by Jman

I don't know of a global wheel setting.



this is what i found at http://preferential.mozdev.org/preferences.html

mousewheel.withnokey.sysnumlines
Scroll by a number of lines equal to system default?


that's why i think that all i have to do is to find this "system default" and change it
i've did some search, but no luck so far

[redhat71]

am i the only one here that ever thought of customizing the behavior of mousewheel ...

[redhat71]

still not solved ... UP!

[carbo18]

Check this out I believe it might help. Since Fedora Core 2 is running Xorg and not XFree86 you will not be able to apply this to the letter but it might give you some headway into the solution...

Colas Nahaboo X mouse wheel scroll page (http://koala.ilog.fr/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/)

[kai4785]

I have the EXACT same question. I can fix this in Firefox, but I also do not see a system-wide setting to change for Gnome. It would be great if there was one, so I'll give this a little bump once more.