Re: Netscape & scrollmouse
David P James wrote:
> David P James wrote:
>
>> Helgi Örn wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 06:44, Bob Proulx wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think you are on top of things. But does
>>>> netscape 4.77 support the mouse wheel? I did not
>>>> think so. If you can go to a newer version or
>>>> Mozilla or Galeon or something newer then I believe
>>>> it will have mouse wheel support. I think netscape
>>>> 4.77 is just too old for that. I believe that is
>>>> why the previous poster was suggesting imwheel.
>>>> That converts mouse events to page-up / page-down,
>>>> cursor-up / cursor-down keys and works for programs
>>>> that don't understand the mouse wheel. But having
>>>> tried that I did not like it and doubt if you would
>>>> either.
>>>>
>>>
>>> In my first mail I explained why I need Netscape 4.*,
>>> I use other browsers too. But when I need to use
>>> Netscape I would like to be able to use the
>>> scrollmouse as I am used to in other Linux
>>> distributions I have used before I moved to Debian.
>>>
>>> Cheers, Helgi Örn
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Netscape 4.77 doesn't seem to support scroll wheels, at
>> least not easily. (Oddly, when I first started using
>> linux I used Corel Linux and I was able to get the
>> scroll wheel to work for about 5 minutes at the
>> beginning of a Netscape session before it cut out on
>> me. I have no idea why and no idea what I did to get it
>> working at all, other than maybe shear luck) However,
>> Netscape is fairly customizable and there is a way
>> around it. I've snipped the relevant section from my
>> .Xdefaults file in my home directory. There is a lot
>> more than what I've appended, including entries to
>> disable blinking text and to replace the search button
>> with a google link, etc.
>>
>>
>
> Ah, heck, here's the entire thing...
>
I didn't create this by myself, btw... I found it somewhere
on the internet, probably after a google search. My
bookmarks have got a few links, but they're mostly dead now :(
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The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe.
-Dr. Leonard McCoy, Star Trek IV
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