Re: imwheel

[Pablo de Vicente <pvicentea@nexo.es>]

El Dom 31 Dic 2000 13:06, Thibaut Cousin escribió:

>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 :


Indeed if your mouse is a PS/2 this is the entry you should have:

Section "Pointer"
   Protocol        "IMPS/2"
   Device          "/dev/psaux"
   ZAxisMapping 4 5
EndSection 

 Never use "Emulate3Buttons", it spoils the wheel behaviour.

Pablo.