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How to Fix Mouse Scrolling
Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2017 11:39 am
by fmh
This annoying feature came back into version 11.1 of GhostBSD after being away for a couple of releases. Now that I use GhostBSD more it really bothers and I have not been able to find out how to correct it yet. In all versions of 11.1 that I have tried of Mate including Betas etc is that the Mouse Scroll wheel works properly when scrolling down but if you scroll up it is configured as a Backspace key. Behaviour is that when on a Web page instead of scrolling to the top of the page it goes to the previous page. When in other non Web Browser apps or on the Desktop the same thing happens when using the scroll up to get to the top of the list it goes back to the previous page, app, etc.
How do I turn off this behaviour? It was in 10.3 I believe and then was fixed until 11.1. I looked in Mouse and Keyboard settings and can not find where this is configured. I am using 11.1 64bit Mate install.
Re: How to Fix Mouse Scrolling
Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2017 12:48 pm
by ericbsd
Remove moused in /etc/rc.conf that is the problem.
Re: How to Fix Mouse Scrolling
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 2:06 pm
by slughorn
fmh wrote:This annoying feature came back into version 11.1 of GhostBSD after being away for a couple of releases. Now that I use GhostBSD more it really bothers and I have not been able to find out how to correct it yet. In all versions of 11.1 that I have tried of Mate including Betas etc is that the Mouse Scroll wheel works properly when scrolling down but if you scroll up it is configured as a Backspace key. Behaviour is that when on a Web page instead of scrolling to the top of the page it goes to the previous page. When in other non Web Browser apps or on the Desktop the same thing happens when using the scroll up to get to the top of the list it goes back to the previous page, app, etc.
How do I turn off this behaviour? It was in 10.3 I believe and then was fixed until 11.1. I looked in Mouse and Keyboard settings and can not find where this is configured. I am using 11.1 64bit Mate install.
I had the same issue. See here:
viewtopic.php?f=59&t=928&start=10. The tip of ericbsd has solved my problem.
Re: How to Fix Mouse Scrolling
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 1:58 pm
by fmh
I do have a problem when trying to do this. The rc.conf file is Read Only.
What I did was to go into the terminal and go to the /etc folder
I typed sudo chmod +w rc.conf
get prompted for the password and enter it in successfully
but the rc.conf is still Read Only.
I also tried sudo chmod u+w rc.conf
but that did not add Write access.
Obviously Unix 101 here but what am I missing?
Re: How to Fix Mouse Scrolling
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 4:19 pm
by Hecktor
It is read only because you don't have rights to write to it with your account.
Type the following:
sudo ee /etc/rc.conf
Escape brings up a menu so you can save it.
Re: How to Fix Mouse Scrolling
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 4:47 pm
by fmh
Thank You that did it.
I thought I had to change the file to Write status before I could call it up to change it. All is good now.
Re: How to Fix Mouse Scrolling
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 11:09 am
by Mach28-5?
ericbsd wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2017 12:48 pm
Remove moused in /etc/rc.conf that is the problem.
I have this same problem using GhostBSD in VirtualBox 6.1. What would the answer be if moused is already not in the rc.conf file? Thanks.
Re: How to Fix Mouse Scrolling
Posted: Thu May 27, 2021 1:02 am
by mogplus8
Same for me, running in Virtualbox 6.1 (host system Linux Mint). Scroll up causes page back if positioned at the top of the page. Positioned further down it usually works correctly. I have also noticed that the Backspace key causes a page back if the cursor is in the search box. Makes it hard to correct typos when typing in search criteria...
:-\
Re: How to Fix Mouse Scrolling
Posted: Thu May 27, 2021 1:03 am
by mogplus8
Forgot to mention I also don't have moused in the /etc/rc.conf file.
Re: How to Fix Mouse Scrolling
Posted: Thu May 27, 2021 10:18 am
by ericbsd
mogplus8 wrote: ↑Thu May 27, 2021 1:03 am
Forgot to mention I also don't have moused in the /etc/rc.conf file.
GhostBSD does not start services in /etc/rc.conf. GhostBSD is not FreeBSD. It is base on FreeBSD.
To remove moused do: