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Side scrolling with the mouse wheel is annoying. [message #263650]

Mon, 25 August 2008 14:39

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: billdsd.gmail.com

I'm using Ganymede-JEE on Ubuntu 8.04.1.

When I scroll quickly with the mouse wheel, Eclipse has a tendency to
side scroll -- which I do not want. I'm not sure if this is controlled
by Eclipse or Linux. I haven't been able to find anything for configuring
it in either.

Is there an easy way to disable this?

Re: Side scrolling with the mouse wheel is annoying. [message #263656 is a reply to message #263650]

Tue, 26 August 2008 03:18

Eclipse User

Bill Davidson wrote:
> I'm using Ganymede-JEE on Ubuntu 8.04.1.
>
> When I scroll quickly with the mouse wheel, Eclipse has a tendency to
> side scroll
Where (editor, form, dialog)?
> -- which I do not want. I'm not sure if this is controlled
> by Eclipse or Linux. I haven't been able to find anything for
> configuring
> it in either.
>
> Is there an easy way to disable this?
We don't do anything special. This is most likely your mouse driver.

Dani

Re: Side scrolling with the mouse wheel is annoying. [message #263709 is a reply to message #263656]

Tue, 26 August 2008 14:44

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: billdsd.gmail.com

Daniel Megert wrote:
> Where (editor, form, dialog)?

I think it's all of them. The ones I notice it most in are
editor, package explorer, and outline.

Re: Side scrolling with the mouse wheel is annoying. [message #263712 is a reply to message #263709]

Tue, 26 August 2008 15:31

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: codeslave.ca.ibm.com

I only get sidescrolling when the mouse cursor is on the horiz
scrollbar. When in an editor (anywhere but the scrollbar), my mousewheel
scrolls up/down.

I use Eclipse 3.3 & 3.4, linux-gtk, ubuntu/debian.

Maybe it's your OS / mouse driver?

Bill Davidson wrote:
> Daniel Megert wrote:
>> Where (editor, form, dialog)?
>
> I think it's all of them. The ones I notice it most in are
> editor, package explorer, and outline.

Re: Side scrolling with the mouse wheel is annoying. [message #263715 is a reply to message #263650]

Tue, 26 August 2008 16:08

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: nowhere.a.com

Bill Davidson wrote :
> I'm using Ganymede-JEE on Ubuntu 8.04.1.
>
> When I scroll quickly with the mouse wheel, Eclipse has a tendency to
> side scroll -- which I do not want. I'm not sure if this is controlled
> by Eclipse or Linux. I haven't been able to find anything for configuring
> it in either.
>
> Is there an easy way to disable this?

It happens to me where the content fits vertically but not
horizontally.

So the vertical scroll bar is disabled, yet the horizontal scroll bar
is enabled.

Moving the mouse wheel will then scroll horizontally. Seems to happen
for any window which has scroll bars (um, Windows OS)

--
Wojtek :-)

Re: Side scrolling with the mouse wheel is annoying. [message #263716 is a reply to message #263709]

Tue, 26 August 2008 16:24

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: billdsd.gmail.com

Bill Davidson wrote:
> Daniel Megert wrote:
>> Where (editor, form, dialog)?
>
> I think it's all of them. The ones I notice it most in are
> editor, package explorer, and outline.

I think I should have said it's all of them where the content
is wider than the window.

I'm guessing it's some Gnome/mouse thing. That doesn't help
me much since I don't know how to deal with it in Gnome either.

Re: Side scrolling with the mouse wheel is annoying. [message #263727 is a reply to message #263716]

Tue, 26 August 2008 20:53

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: codeslave.ca.ibm.com

Cannot reproduce with linux-gtk version of Eclipse 3.4.0 on AntiX Linux
(ubuntu/debian) running KDE. I'd guess that you won't have this problem
w/ xfce (eg., xubuntu).

Try googling gnome/ubuntu/gentoo sites/wikis for advice -- someone's
bound to have documented how to configure this.

Bill Davidson wrote:
> Bill Davidson wrote:
>> Daniel Megert wrote:
>>> Where (editor, form, dialog)?
>>
>> I think it's all of them. The ones I notice it most in are
>> editor, package explorer, and outline.
>
> I think I should have said it's all of them where the content
> is wider than the window.
>
> I'm guessing it's some Gnome/mouse thing. That doesn't help
> me much since I don't know how to deal with it in Gnome either.
>

--
Nick Boldt :: Release Engineer, IBM Toronto Lab
Eclipse Modeling :: http://www.eclipse.org/modeling
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/User:Nickb

Re: Side scrolling with the mouse wheel is annoying. [message #268523 is a reply to message #263715]

Thu, 12 February 2009 16:08

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: billdsd.gmail.com

Just in case anyone else has this problem, I did finally figure
it out.

If you have a problem with unwanted side scrolling in Eclipse on
Linux, you can edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, find the section
for the mouse driver, and add this option to the mouse driver config
to disable side scrolling with the mouse wheel. Before you ask, no,
I don't know why this fixes it.

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

I'm not sure but I think you'll probably have to restart your X server
for the change to take effect.

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