How to Enable Mouse Wheel Scrolling in Ubuntu (VMware)

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Problem

Ubuntu…beside Default VI is suck, here is another issue for me. My mouse wheel scrolling is not working in Ubuntu8.04. However i installed Ubuntu in vmware, but i do not think it is vmware cause of this issue.

Solution

Here i find some useful information regarding Mouse Wheel Scrolling malfunction issuse, please check Ubuntu Mouse Configuration Official website. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ManyButtonsMouseHowto

After studying above article, here i provided some steps to enable mouse wheel scrolling in Ubuntu under VMware.

1) Open terminal

2) issue command “sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf”

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

3) Modify /etc/X11/xorg.conf , Change below part

From 

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"vmmouse"
	Option		"CorePointer"
	Option		"Device"	"/dev/input/mice"
EndSection

to 

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"vmmouse"
        Option "CorePointer"
        Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
        Option "Buttons" "5"
        Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

4) Save it

5) Hit Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to restart Ubuntu X windows (If Ctrl+Alt+Backspac is not working, just reboot Ubuntu normally)

6) Login again , your mouse wheel scrolling should be working in Ubuntu now

7) Done

Please refer Ubuntu community if you want to know more detail about mouse wheel scrolling configuration in Ubuntu.

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nick
12 years ago

file doesnt exist, terrible write up, you need to advise what to do when the file doesnt exist

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Yogev
12 years ago

the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf was not existed so i created one , i did reboot and now it’s stuck on the reboot phase – i am using xubuntu , and i got really important stuff there, what do i do ???

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Yogev
12 years ago
Reply to  Yogev

got it, run on recovery mode and deleted the file, xubuntu is running again – yet the mouse wheel still isn’t active

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ps
17 years ago

I was trying Ubuntu 8.x on VMWorkstation 6.x. If I did CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE, it screwed up my screen resolution. If I just rebooted Ubuntu, it worked. Thx.

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mkyong
17 years ago
Reply to  ps

Thanks for info ~

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