Stephen Gran on Sun, 1 Jun 2003 12:52:04 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Mouse Wheel


On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 12:29:39PM +0000, Arthur S. Alexion said:
> What controls the use of the mouse wheel, XFree86, the environment (like
> gnome, kde or GNUstep), the window manager, or the app itself?

In my case at least, an app called imwheel.  Basically (and very
roughly, because I'm not sure I understand X and mouse events all that
well) you have to remap certain input events to certain results.
imwheel does this mapping for you, but I believe you could do it without
it.

> I recall having some minor wheel functionality (its been a while, but I
> think Mozilla would scroll the window only if the mouse was positioned
> over the scroll bar when you turned the wheel.  Now, it seems to have no
> effect anywhere, even though I consistently choose application options
> that enable it.  Is there a place where I have to globally enable it?

You would have to enable buttons 4 and 5 in XF86Config, and then map
them to something in one the xsession scripts.  If you're stuck, let me
know and I'll try to refresh my memory of where things go.  If you want
to use imwheel, it has pretty good documentation, at least in the Debian
package - I believe the maintainer wrote a fair amount of it himself.

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