As I said (indirectly) before (yes, it was me!!!), turning off numlock only
enables scrolling in Netscape if you use XFree86 4.x. For XFree86 3.x you
need to use imwheel. This has worked in both KDE and GNOME for me.
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 05:08, Paul wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Andrew Iovannisci wrote:
> >I also get some interesting reactions when I click the wheel.
> >( By click, I mean push down on the wheel like it was a third button)
> >In Kmail, it pastes the last item copied to the clipboard.
> >In Netscape, when I click the wheel, it does a search for whatever was
> > last copied to the clipboard. Is this normal?
>
> I think it was Civileme or Srihadar (sorry, I probably butchered your
> name!) that mentioned something about switching off numlock. That may work
> in KDE but not in XFCE. I need to run "imwheel -k" for the scrolling to
> work in Netscape. You can add that to ~/.xinitrc.
>
> Beware of this pitfall: if you have run imwheel as root before, it has
> created some lockfile with root permissions. You first need to find and
> wipe that, otherwise you get strange warnings and errors when trying to
> run imwheel as a user.
>
> Paul
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