Need help with M$ touchmouse

[Peter Hutterer]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 01:23:49PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
> 
> I have a wireless M$ Explorer Touchmouse, and the touch pad is buggier 
> than a 10 day old carcass.
> 
> Specifically, the side scrolling is driving me crazy, and its not a long 
> trip. ;)
> 
> When it works, its 20x more sensitive sideways than vertically, and I 
> can't get my fingers far enough away from the pad to stop its crazy 
> behavior, and still rest them in a comfy location for button pushing.
> 
> Is there anything I can put in an /etc/X11 file that will shut the side 
> scroll function off, but leave the vertical finger drags working?

attach an evemu recording and your xorg.log to a bug please. I don't have a
recording for this one yet so it's hard to tell.

Cheers,
   Peter

> 
> Even that goes away quite frequently, and I have to turn the mouse over, 
> shut it off for a second or two & turn it back on, at which point it works 
> fairly well but will eventually become intermittent in its response for an 
> hour or so before completely dying, the the screen cursor still follows it 
> well, and the two buttons work well.  But I've blamed that on a buggy 
> mouse.
> 
> This is extremely distracting when I am writing code in geany (gedit does 
> not have a sideways scroll, but it has trashed important source code file 
> entirly too often, geany never has) because I have to drag the bar on the 
> bottom back the the left stop in order to see what I am writing.  I need 
> help since the mouse makers figured out how to sell the high priced 
> versions by putting the optical eye way back under the palm of our hands 
> instead of up under your fingers in the #<$50 models.  So the <$50 mice 
> aren't at all intuitive to use because you are forced to move the whole 
> arm when using them.