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Re: IBM scoll button



On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 21:23 +0100, Swen Walkowski wrote:
>  
> Hi,
> 
> thngs for your answer ;), My problem is the boutten with the blue line 
> between the bouttens with the read liens. I hope you will find it. ;) I 
> can't use it. I will use it for scrolling, if i press it than I can 
> scroll up and down the page.
> 
> I hope you will understand my english ;).

Hi Swen,

Your english is waaayyy better than my german :-)

The button with the blue line, between the two buttons with the red line
(just below the space bar) is the middle mouse button under X-Windows.

This is a fundamental difference between Windows and X-Windows, I think.
The button itself works fine for me - at least in the way I expect a
middle mouse button to work under X-Windows (paste, open browser in new
tab, etc).

If you want an easier scroll action, you can use the touchpad for
scrolling, however, with the "xfree86-driver-synaptics" package - this
will let you configure an area on the touchpad so that up / down
movement on that is translated to up / down scrolling, and so forth.

It may also be possible to configure your window manager to interpret
some sort of "middle-button + drag" action to scroll the window, but
that will depend on your window manager, and I don't know how to do it.

Regards,
					Andrew McMillan.

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