Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:17:32 +0200 From: A FreeBSD User <freebsd@walstatt-de.de> To: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> Cc: FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Inverted mouse wheel since refurbishment of moused? Message-ID: <20251020201759.2b41f4b0@thor.sb211.local> In-Reply-To: <aPVZGp2yxq4WUcWY@www.zefox.net> References: <20251019193257.4e608978@thor.sb211.local> <aPVZGp2yxq4WUcWY@www.zefox.net>
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--Sig_/Fe+Y.4I3=43QnEUjeHc_iW6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am Tage des Herren Sun, 19 Oct 2025 14:33:14 -0700 bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> schrieb: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2025 at 07:33:15PM +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 UPWA= RD towards > > historical entries. Up to the time of this inversion there was no diffe= rence between > > Microsofts handling of the mousewheel. Now, switching between M$ Window= s 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 departm= ent's Email, just > > that), in FreeBSD's X11 I used for years now either no extra config or = =20 > >=20 > > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7". > >=20 > > First guess was to shuffle "4 5 6 7", but whatever the order of the num= bers is, it has no > > effect. > >=20 > > What triggers this inversion and how to restore the "legacy" or, more = suitable, the > > traditional way? > > =20 > Have you tried a different mouse? =20 Lots of. At work there are several types of cheap standard USB mice, most o= f them HP, Fujitsu (no matter what vendor they use) or Logitech, at home I use a Razer. Somehow I caught by surprise just compiling a new world/kernel and the mous= e wheel is inverted ... >=20 > Just to be clear, on a RasPiOS machine I see > Wheel top surface away from user, text scrolls down in window > wheel top surfacace toward user, text scrolls up in window >=20 > It's been a while since I last used X on FreeBSD >=20 > I _have_ observed scroll wheels "going backwards" on=20 > a pair of old Dell mice that I use a great deal.=20 > Contact cleaner applied to the encoder, which seems > to be a mechanical switch, fixes it for extened intervals. > That behavior was quite erratic, but debris in an optical > encoder might conceivably do something similar, perhaps > in a more consistent way. >=20 > hth, >=20 > bob prohaska >=20 >=20 --=20 A FreeBSD user --Sig_/Fe+Y.4I3=43QnEUjeHc_iW6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEARYKAB0WIQRQheDybVktG5eW/1Kxzvs8OqokrwUCaPZ81wAKCRCxzvs8Oqok r656AP4mn7heB+SwrTbGEhFYZGiLcKflXkoNKs1+VXAJP/T+BgEAwGFpStEZMD50 qLk5Li77Qwf5k7o2jBGzMKsjtIxqfwc= =SfG0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/Fe+Y.4I3=43QnEUjeHc_iW6--
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