Thinkpad X61s - ScrollWheel Emulation

[ronnsn]

Hello *!

I've tested the following with puppy versions: 5.1.0, 5.0.0, 4.3.1, 4.2, 4.1.2, 4.1.1
To enable the scroll wheel emulation (known from the windows driver) i've done the following:

1. Open /etc/X11/xorg.conf (i.e. with the Geany Editor)

2. find section for the mouse setup
..something similar to:

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Section "InputDevice"
	Driver "mouse"
	Identifier "Mouse0"
	Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

3. Add the following entries to the mouse setup section
Variant 1 - use vertical scrolling only

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	Option "Emulate3Buttons"     "on"
	Option "Emulate3TimeOut"     "50" 
	Option "EmulateWheel"        "on"
	Option "EmulateWheelTimeOut" "200"
	Option "EmulateWheelButton"  "2"
	Option "ZAxisMapping"        "4 5"

Variant 2 - vertical + horizontal scrolling

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	Option "Emulate3Buttons"     "on"
	Option "Emulate3TimeOut"     "50" 
	Option "EmulateWheel"        "on"
	Option "EmulateWheelTimeOut" "200"
	Option "EmulateWheelButton"  "2"
	Option "ZAxisMapping"        "4 5"
	Option "YAxisMapping"        "4 5"
	Option "XAxisMapping"        "6 7"

In addition you have to change settings for seamonkey (and/or) firefox (because horizontal scrolling uses forward/backward button)
==> enter about:config in address line and modify the following

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	mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action = 0;
	mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.numlines = 1;

4. Menu->Shutdown->Restart X server

Done.

Edit: 2009-01-04: Initial Creation
Edit: 2009-01-09: Added functionality for horizontal scrolling
Edit: 2009-03-29: update tested versions
Edit: 2010-01-24: update tested version (4.3.1)
Edit: 2010-05-23: update tested version (5.0.0)
Edit: 2010-08-21: update tested version (5.1.0)