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    From bp@www.zefox.net@3:770/3 to All on Wed Aug 28 20:25:39 2024
    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

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  • From Chris Townley@3:770/3 to bp@www.zefox.net on Wed Aug 28 21:39:05 2024
    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?

    --
    Chris

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  • From bp@www.zefox.net@3:770/3 to Chris Townley on Wed Aug 28 23:19:11 2024
    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

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