I did read your e-mail, but it didn't help me.
I have no .Xresource file and no /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Netscape
directory.
2000, you wrote:
> --- Bobby Dowling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 May 2000, you wrote:
> > > Dude, I have been using a wheel mouse in Linux
> > since
> > > before Mandrake existed!
> > >
> > > First, my wheel mouse is working fine.
> > >
> > > What I pointed out was that the latest netscape
> > cooker
> > > (let me remind you this *is* the cooker mailing
> > list,
> > > it just happens it gets also used for debugging
> > > Mandrake pre-releases) packages I installed
> > > (4.73-3mdk), contain a X resources file with no
> > > support for wheel mouse; were previous versions of
> > the
> > > packages did.
> > >
> > > BTW, if you don't know what the X resource file
> > for
> > > netscape is, it is:
> > >
> > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Netscape
> > >
> > > And no, I don't have a problem; I can easily solve
> > it
> > > by adding the wheel support definitions to the
> > file my
> > > self. But the cooker netscape packages do have a
> > > problem, and that is what I am doing in the
> > **cooker**
> > > mailing list, helping debug **cooker** problems,
> > not
> > > whining about "this and that not working"!
> > >
> > > Sorry for the rant, but it is that some people
> > think
> > > this is a whiner's list to complaint about their
> > > problems with this and that, when it is supposed
> > to be
> > > the development mailing list for Mandrake; i.e.
> > > **cooker**.
> > >
> > > --- Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Stefan/Eugenio/Owen....I've been using IMWheel
> > and a
> > > > Logitech
> > > > Trackman Marble + successfully with all versions
> > of
> > > > Mandrake
> > > > from 5.3 to 7.1. Perhaps the 4 of us could go
> > > > private and
> > > > attempt to solve Eugenio & Owens problem(s)?
>
> > Eugenio,
> >
> > .... Trying to get wheel to work on Logitech first
> > mouse in Netscape. Wheel
> > works for many other apps already.
> >
> > Edited pointer section of /etc/X11/XF86Config to
> > include the following:
> >
> > Buttons 3
> > ZAxisMapping 4 5
> > #emulate 3 buttons (these are
> > #emulate 3 timeout commented out)
> >
> > I also put a copy of imwheelrc in my user home
> > directory.
> >
> > I restarted X.
> >
> > All this got the wheel to work in Netscape for all
> > betas earlier than iso
> > beta3.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Hello??? Did you read my email at all??
>
> All you need to do is put the X resource entries for
> netscape either in your
> "/usr/X11R6/lib/app-defaults/Netscape" or in your
> "$HOME/.Xresource" file; I recommend the later, since
> the other one is version sensitive.
>
> And that is exactly what I am pointing out, that the
> Xresource entries for button 4 & 5 are missing from
> the netscape application defaults resource file in the
> current cooker packages! I guess somebody updated the
> file to 4.73 and forgot to add those.
>
> =====
> ________________________
> Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE
> Linux Engineer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Bobby
