mouse wheel wrong direction?

Kurt V. Hindenburg khindenburg at cherrynebula.net
Sat Dec 6 07:44:46 CET 2003


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On Saturday 06 December 2003 01:30 am, Bob Snyder wrote:
| I find the use of the terms 'up' and 'down' in this context to be
| very ambiguous. First of all, my mouse wheel doesn't move up or
| down at all. It moves 'away from me' or 'toward me'.
|
| When I move my mouse wheel away from me the text of a web page (for
| instance) moves 'down' on the screen which allows me to read things
| that are farther 'up' on the page.
|
| When on the desktop, moving the mouse wheel away from me moves to a
| lower numbered workspace. This is roughly analogous (at least to
| me) of allowing me to read things farther up (i.e. earlier) on the
| a web page.
|
| Is this how yours works?
|
Yes; when I started using xfce, this seems backwards to what I would  
expect.  Something I'll have to get used to. :-)

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