On Sun, 19 Oct 2025 19:33:15 +0200 A FreeBSD User wrote:
> A while ago /usr/sbin/moused has seen some refurbishment. Since then in X11 
> the mousewheel is
> inverted. I'm on CURRENT and 15-STABLE. Mouse is right hand. Moving the wheel 
> "away" was
> supposed to scroll DOWN towards the last entry (i.e. within an xterm), moving 
> (or rotating, if
> you like) the wheel towards me was supposed to scroll UPWARD towards 
> historical entries. Up to
> the time of this inversion there was no difference between Microsofts 
> handling of the
> mousewheel. Now, switching between M$ Windows and my lab's FBSD installation 
> is a pain, my
> limited brains capacity doens't compute the inversion of the axis very fast. 
> Since I do not
> use fancy things on how to configure the mouse in Windows I suppose its the 
> standard how I
> use the mouse (I use Windows for department's Email, just that), in FreeBSD's 
> X11 I used for
> years now either no extra config or  
> 
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7".
> 
> First guess was to shuffle "4 5 6 7", but whatever the order of the numbers 
> is, it has no
> effect.
> 
> What triggers this inversion  and how to restore the "legacy" or, more 
> suitable, the
> traditional way?

What is the output of 'ps xaww | grep moused' and 'dmesg | grep ms' ?

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