On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:30:18PM +0200, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > Package: xterm > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 > Severity: wishlist > > If you accidentally use a horizontal scroll wheel (buttons 6 and 7) in an > xterm, it beeps. I am using the EmulateWheel feature of XFree86 to simulate > both the vertical and horizontal wheel, and when "scrolling" vertically, I > inevitably cause a few horizontal wheel events. So this beep is rather > bothersome. > > I tried to work around this by adding empty translations for buttons 6 and > 7, but as far as I can tell, Xt only supports 5 buttons, so there is no hope > of that. I presume that has something to do with the beeps, but I did not > dig far enough to discover exactly what causes them. If it is simply the > case that every "bogus" event causes a beep, maybe there can be an option to > disable that.
since it's an X library issue, it should be reported against the X libraries. (what fix do you suppose I could make to xterm to address this?) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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