During the bombing raid on Mon, 2 Apr 2001 23:44:02 +0200 (CEST), Pixel was
heard mumbling in fear:
> Claudio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Monday 02 April 2001 22:58, you wrote:
> > > Claudio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > On Saturday 31 March 2001 20:53, you wrote:
> > > > > For netscape you need to install imwhell.
> > > > Why then I cannot find imwheel installed even if I told "generic wheel
> > > > mouse" during installation?!?
> > >
> > > fixed (i hate imwheel)
> >
> > Someone on this list suggested a good way (good for I'm using it!) to use
> > wheel with out imwheel. It's all reported in:
> > http://www.pclinuxonline.com/Help___How_To/Netscape/netscape.html
>
> well, dadou told me that netscape wheel via resources is not as good as with
> imwheel :'-(
And in this, IMNSHO, dadou is wrong. imwheel is an ugly hack to try and
fix things that have been fixed for ages in The Right Way. Mdk should a) setup
the wheel in X with the proper ZAxisMapping option according to the X version
and b) have the correct options for those apps that need to be told about it,
like netscape and emacs.
Colas Nahaboo's page has the appropiate settings for all the
wheel-aware apps that aren't smart enough to see it without being specifically
told...it'd rock the world to have all of these stuff pre-set in Mandrake. The
site is:
http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
Vox
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