Re: Scroll ball mouse in Bookworm/wayland

Chris Townley <news@cct-net.co.uk> wrote:

On 28/08/2024 21:25, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:

How can one get a scroll-ball mouse working in Bookworm/Wayland
on a Pi5?
 
I connected an old Apple mouse with a scrollball on top and found
that it worked nicely to start with, but after a few updates scrolling
down a page quit working. Left-right up a page still work.
 
I'm  trying the instructions in
https://gist.github.com/eli9000/ac3356bb2d40183be1a425805e3b7641
but the file layout doesn't quite match and so far my efforts
to edit the sytem defaults haven't worked.
 
If there's a simpler way please point it out!
 
Thanks for reading,
 
bob prohaska
 

 
perhaps try a simple USB mouse, with a scroll wheel?

Actually, that's what I started with. To begin with scrolling
down a page worked, as did scrolling back up. After some upgrades
(which weren't obviously related) scrolling down stopped working.
That mouse was an old Dell that had given trouble in the past.

Thinking it was the scroll wheel encoder I tried using contact
cleaner, but that made no difference. Only then did I try the
Apple scrollball mouse, and it seemed to work at least initially.
The left-right scroll feature was handy, since I have a small screen.

After another update or two, scrolling down stopped working
entirely, at which point I discovered the terms normal versus
reverse scrolling and found the web page linked above.  That
seems to apply to a version of Debian Bookworm that has a quite
different configuration file layout, though the title of the
thread refers to Raspberry Pi.

The thing which seems odd is that left-right scrolling with
the apple scrollball mouse still works when it's appropriate.

At this point I _think_ the trouble is software, but I'm not
sure of anything....

Thanks for writing,

bob prohaska