David, thanks. Long winded? No problem. This conversation that YOU started has increased my own awareness of the problem. Yes, I am beginning to see the same things that you are. One of the things that I have noticed is that if I start netscape first after I start my system and login, then the wheelmouse does not work. If I start the Konqueror first, then the wheel works in netscape mail at least for a while and then it stops working. When the wheel stops working in netscape, I can kill the current imwheel process and start another with 'imwheel -k' and then the wheel again functions everywhere. At least for now it looks like we have an inconvenient solution to the problem. The problem is likely that some piece of software possibly something that cron runs periodically is walking on the imwheel process and disabling it. Interesting problem. Tom Berkley David Boles wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 23:35:03 -0800, Tom Berkley said: > > Okay, here goes. I am using Linux-Mandrake 7.2 and its files updated only from > the Mandrake Update suggested files list. Something, I guess KDE 2.0, loads > imwheel-p. I can see it as a loaded application with kpm, gtop, or top. The > wheel mouse does work in everything KDE that I have tried. To date I have NOT > seen it stop in anything KDE. > > It does NOT work in Netscape. If I type imwheel -k in a terminal window the > wheel mouse will work in Netscape. Sometimes for hours, sometimes it stops > working after several minutes. Sometimes it stops after a new web site is > loaded. You will notice that I said sometimes. I can not even give you the URLs > that make it happen. Like I said this time, this site maybe works maybe does > not work. Very frustrating. When it stops working imwheel -k is still listed as > a loaded application. > > Alan Shoemaker suggested adding a long list of things to the ~./Xdefaults file. > I have attached this list, as netscape-imwheel.txt to this message. Perhaps it > should be put somewhere else? Or maybe a typo? > > As I write this, after using kpm to see if imwheel is still loaded, it is, the > wheel mouse works in all KDE stuff and others but does NOT work in Netscape. > > BTW What does the '&' do at the end of the line? > > Sorry to be so long winded. > > > I do not use imwheel and the wheel mouse works in kde and Konqueror but > > does not work in netscape. When I start imwheel, then the wheel mouse > > works in netscape. Since I rarely use netscape to browse, I do not have > > all of your observations. However, when it starts to get flakey again, > > just 'imwheel -k &' in a shell and see what happens. If you let us know > > the results after poking around with it for a while, that would be > > appreciated mucho. Thanks. > > -- > > David Boles > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > eagleice wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I tryed to ask this on the 'Expert' mailing list without > > any reply at all. I was impressed that the Mandrake 7.2 had > > configured my MS Intellimouse out of the box, the second > > Linux dist that manages to do that (Caldera 2.4 beeing the > > other one). But; when I log in after reboot imwheel is > > working fine with all KDE apps and StarOffice but it's not > > working in Netscape! After running the imwheel command > > though it works again, why this? > > > > Cheers, > > ei > > ei....I must have missed this in expert. I can't succintly > explain the change between 7.1 and 7.2, but instead of > rerunning imwheel do this. Add the code below to the end of > your ~/.Xdefaults file. > -- > Alan > > !## NETSCAPE > Netscape*drawingArea.translations: #replace \ > <Btn1Down>: ArmLink() \n\ > <Btn2Down>: ArmLink() \n\ > ~Shift<Btn1Up>: ActivateLink() \n\ > ~Shift<Btn2Up>: ActivateLink(new-window) \ > DisarmLink() \n\ > Shift<Btn1Up>: ActivateLink(save-only) \ > DisarmLink() \n\ > Shift<Btn2Up>: ActivateLink(save-only) \ > DisarmLink() \n\ > <Btn1Motion>: DisarmLinkIfMoved() \n\ > <Btn2Motion>: DisarmLinkIfMoved() \n\ > <Btn3Motion>: DisarmLinkIfMoved() \n\ > <Motion>: DescribeLink() \n\ > <Btn3Down>: xfeDoPopup() \n\ > <Btn3Up>: ActivatePopup() \n\ > Ctrl<Btn4Down>: PageUp()\n\ > Ctrl<Btn5Down>: PageDown()\n\ > Shift<Btn4Down>: LineUp()\n\ > Shift<Btn5Down>: LineDown()\n\ > None<Btn4Down>: > LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()\n\ > None<Btn5Down>: > LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()\n\ > Alt<Btn4Down>: xfeDoCommand(forward)\n\ > Alt<Btn5Down>: xfeDoCommand(back)\n > > Netscape*globalNonTextTranslations: #override\n\ > Shift<Btn4Down>: LineUp()\n\ > Shift<Btn5Down>: LineDown()\n\ > None<Btn4Down>:LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()LineUp > ()\n\ > None<Btn5Down>:LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()LineDo > wn()LineDown()\n\ > Alt<Btn4Down>: xfeDoCommand(forward)\n\ > Alt<Btn5Down>: xfeDoCommand(back)\n
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