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How do I emulate a scroll wheel in Ubuntu 10.04?

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I have a Kensington Orbital Optical trackball. This has two buttons and a trackball. I am using Ubuntu 10.04. I wish to set this up so that when I click and hold the right mouse button (button 3 according to xev) and move the trackball, I get mouse scrolling behaviour. I accomplished this once in t…

Error Output

(II) config/udev: Adding input device Kensington      Kensington USB/PS2 Orbit (/dev/input/event5)
(**) Kensington      Kensington USB/PS2 Orbit: App…

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The solution was xinput for the time being. I have a little script I can run, so for future knowledge, what I was looking for included the following: Using xev to figure out which button was mapped to which button. lshal and xinput to gather informa…

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