Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 19:11:00 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?VMSzbA==?= Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> To: A FreeBSD User <freebsd@walstatt-de.de> Cc: FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Inverted mouse wheel since refurbishment of moused? Message-ID: <20251027191100.1bb83480@hal.tijl.coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <20251019193257.4e608978@thor.sb211.local>
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On Sun, 19 Oct 2025 19:33:15 +0200 A FreeBSD User wrote: > A while ago /usr/sbin/moused has seen some refurbishment. Since then in X11 the mousewheel is > inverted. I'm on CURRENT and 15-STABLE. Mouse is right hand. Moving the wheel "away" was > supposed to scroll DOWN towards the last entry (i.e. within an xterm), moving (or rotating, if > you like) the wheel towards me was supposed to scroll UPWARD towards historical entries. Up to > the time of this inversion there was no difference between Microsofts handling of the > mousewheel. Now, switching between M$ Windows and my lab's FBSD installation is a pain, my > limited brains capacity doens't compute the inversion of the axis very fast. Since I do not > use fancy things on how to configure the mouse in Windows I suppose its the standard how I > use the mouse (I use Windows for department's Email, just that), in FreeBSD's X11 I used for > years now either no extra config or > > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7". > > First guess was to shuffle "4 5 6 7", but whatever the order of the numbers is, it has no > effect. > > What triggers this inversion and how to restore the "legacy" or, more suitable, the > traditional way? What is the output of 'ps xaww | grep moused' and 'dmesg | grep ms' ?home | help
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