Hello,
Once again I am going to say that my Logitech wheel mouse hasn't worked since I
went up to Mandrake 7.0. Nothing I do, nor any received suggestions have
rectified this situation. Moreover it still doesn't work with XFree86-4. The
most I seem to be able to achieve is no wheel at all, erratic mouse behaviour
with or without wheel movement, or the pointer shooting to the bottom left
corner as soon as the wheel is moved.
I am glad to know it is not just me !!! However it strikes me that the wheel
mouse is amongst the most rudimentary input devices and on Window$ PC's is
taken completely for granted. It is a sad thing that Linux still does not
support wheel mice as an input medium. - There rant over !
I realise that a lot of this problem lies at XFree86.org, and as I am always
told ;-) they have a lot on there plate - judging by how badly XF-4 works on my
box an awful lot !!!
Owen
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> I will be happy if wheel in my mouse is working in KDE (I use now KDE2 Beta 4)
> I have Logitech mouse and Mandrake 7.0
> I have heard that Mandrake 7.1 was supporting wheel mouse, but don't know
> what package is responsible for. Looks like upgrading from KDE1 to KDE2
> doesn't help :-(
>
> Vadim
>
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> > Apparently someone has been switching the function of the wheel mouse in
> > netscape and terminals several times in the last few months.
> >
> > About three months ago I had netscape and most gtk apps using the wheel
> > for scrolling very fine, but in the terminal apps including
> > gnome-terminal the wheel scrolled the command history instead of the
> > scrollbar.
> >
> > Then a change came and I had netscape not scrolling at all, most gtk
> > apps scrolling fine, and the terminal app also scrolling fine.
> >
> > And now we are back to the first again.
> >
> > I personally think that it is more useful to have the wheel working as
> > the scroll bar instead as the the history in the terminal apps.
> >
> > Of course, it may be that this has nothing to do with the wheel mouse
> > Xresourses since I noticed that , but with the mapping of the "PgUp" and
> > "PgDn" keys, since those also scroll the command-history now (of course
> > I think these keys should also scroll the scroll bar; after all that is
> > what their name implies right?)
> >
> > --
> > Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE
> > Linux Engineer
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
