Re: Scrolling the mouse wheel of Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer (again) in Corel Linux 1.2

[Andrea Vettorello <molotov@dei.unipd.it>]

Rob VanFleet wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 07:20:19PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote:
> > if your using gpm to interact with X you need to set XF86config
> > to use /dev/gpmdata instead of /dev/psaux
>
> Not necessarily.  Actually, that method gave me problems.  I got gpm and X
> working together harmoniously by simpling setting my gpm repeat protocol to
> nothing (it seems to want to default to ms3, even when the mouse type is
> imps2).
>
> > Bruce Miller wrote:
> > > I will be trying Colas Nahaboo's modifications to Netscape to see if
> > > the wheel scrolls there. I gather that users of Debian have had
> > > particular difficulty getting a wheel mouse to scroll. Has anyone
> > > solved this?
>
> Netscape 4.x is the only app this doesn't work with.  I have the same mouse as
> yours, and all I use is the ZAxisMapping line and I don't use imwheel.  I think
> that possibly the one app imwheel is good for is NS 4.x.  All gnome and kde
> apps scroll fine without it as does Mozilla and Opera.
>
> [...]

Modifying your ~/.Xdefaults file you can use the wheel in Nestcape 4.x too without
imwheell.

I've posted mine some time ago on the list...


Andrea