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RE: Netscape & scrollmouse



it worked for me on potato with Xfree 4 but not now in woody. I don´t
remember but i thin it was Netscape 4.75. In mozilla I don`t realize.


> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: David P James [mailto:dpjames@rogers.com]
> Enviado el: jueves, 27 de junio de 2002 14:43
> Para: Debian User List
> Asunto: Re: Netscape & scrollmouse
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> --
> David P. James
> Ottawa, Ontario
> http://members.rogers.com/dpjames/
>
> The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe.
> -Dr. Leonard McCoy, Star Trek IV
>


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