Re: Wheel mice

[D-Man <dsh8290 rit edu>]

I just want to add that not everything just works.  Netscape included:  it
scrolled for a while, but not anymore.  Also, only some GTK entities allow scrolling
(if the mouse isn't over the scrollbar).  Ex: Balsa (when composing a message),
gvim, gless.

-D


On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 03:27:58 Nils Rennebarth wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 11:35:27AM -0300, fclose antisocial com wrote:
> > I recently bought a cordless wheel mouse from Logitech (it's just
> > great!) and started enjoying the freedom of a cordless mouse.
> > 
> > After it, I looked at that wheel and thought about actually using it. It
> > was not a pleasant task, I must say. There's a program called IMWheel
> > which translates the moves of the wheel to PGUP and PGDN keystrokes. It
> > works, but that's just too fucking ugly.
> Better use XFree86 directly by putting
> 
>    ZAxisMapping    4 5
> 
> in the "Pointer" section of your XFree86 config file.
> 
> All gtk applications can then be scrolled by the wheel automatically.
> I tried it with a self written application that doesn't do the
> slightest effort to support the wheel: simply works.
> 
> A few other applications, most notably netscape just work as well. Tcl/Tk on
> the other hand does not. 
>  
> Nils
> 
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