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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
>
> --
> Quotes from the net, featuring John Lapeyre[L] and Christopher F. Miller
[M]:
> M> I'm not sure what the right words are to describe Upside. Last month
they
> M> mentioned the sendmail **web server** as an example of the failure of the
> M> open source process....
> L> Well, sendmail does a lousy job of serving webpages.
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