I tried using that script but it still doesn't work. any other suggestins anyone? as
always, any help is greatly appreciated.
Ken Wahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > First I would like to say thank-you to everyone for your help. My wheel mouse is
>now working.
> > Now I would like to have imwheel start automatically at startup. following the
>advice in the mail archives I put this script in my autostart folder:
> >
> > #! /bin/sh
> > /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel -k
> >
> > now whenever I start KDE i get an error saying it can not execute the program. The
>only thing I can think of is the fact that I have to be logged in as su in order to
>start imwheel.
> > Again, any help is greatly appreciated.
> > tim
> >
>
> I had the same problem as well. On my 7.0 installation imwheel is
> SUID. I start it with the following script in ~/Desktop/Autostart
>
> #! /bin/bash
> xterm -e imwheel -k
> exit 0
>
> For reasons I haven't figured out yet this works while just putting the
> path to imwheel does not. My guess is because the program is SUID but
> thats only a guess.
>
> A previous poster suggested putting an actual copy of the imwheel
> executable in ~/Desktop/Autostart. I have not tried this.
>
> The drawback to my method is that you occasionally see a xterm window open
> for a split second when KDE is loading.
>
> Good luck.
>
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