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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