Re: imwheel

[Thibaut Cousin <cousin@in2p3.fr>]

Le Dimanche 31 Décembre 2000 07:50, Mircea Luca a écrit :
> I'm running unstable ,KDE2 ,gdm,kernel 2.4test12,X4 . My problem is
> simple.The wheel won't work in Netscape unless I open an xterm and start
> imwheel .The wheel works fine otherwise in other KDE apps altough if I
> do an "ps aux | grep imwheel " it will show only the grep which means
> AFAIK that imwheel doesn't work.
> I tried to make .xinitrc and exec imwheel -that didn't work .
> I know it's not related to kernel since it did the same thing with
> 2.2.18 and without devfs
>
> Any ideas welcome

  Imwheel is, in principle, not necessary to make the wheel work. The wheel 
support can be implemented directly in applications. KDE has built-in wheel 
support, so the only required thing is the line "ZAxisMapping 4 5" in 
XF86Config. The same is true for Gnome apps or Staroffice, for example. 
Imwheel is therefore needed only for apps without built-in wheel support.
  Netscape 4.X doesn't have wheel support, whereas Mozilla or Netscape 6 
have. So two solutions :

1) launch imwheel in .xsession, not .xinitrc with a line like "exec 
/usr/bin/X11/imwheel &". If gdm is Debian-compliant, it should use .xsession.
2) abandon imwheel, as most modern apps have built-in wheel support. 
Konqueror and Mozilla are very good now, even for Java, PHP or plugins.

  Hope it helps,

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