On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 17:56:43 -0500
Kelly McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
>
> Please tell me your kidding. OK, I'll assume your not. You seem to be
> one of the few for whom this mysteriously works. What you have is what
> I started with before my first post about this.
LOL! And I don't even care to use it, how's that for irony?! Howsabout
we just trade comps?
> Here's what I found:
>
> without the xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5" command, my thumb
> buttons scroll up and down and wheel does nothing. OK, makes sense.
> With this line in xinitrc it never seems to be executed,
sounds like it is being overridden by something, possibly what you
describe below. I would try commenting that out in xinit.d and instead
having it run when *your user* starts X, rather than when the system
starts X, maybe that's the difference? Shouldn't be, I know, but hey,
this is X we're talking about...can be a whacko kinda thing at the best
of times.
BTW, do you start from runlevel 3, ie. textmode? I would highly
recommend it, makes jumping in and out of X a breeze. Also, if you set
vga=794 in your /etc/lilo.conf, you get a nice high res text mode with
lotsa room on a big monitor, if ya got one. There are other modes, of
course, set it depending on your screensize:
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
# vga=791
# Normal VGA console
# vga = normal
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
# vga=791
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x32k
# vga=790
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256
# vga=773
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x64k
# vga=788
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x32k
# vga=787
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x256
# vga=771
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x64k
# vga=785
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x32k
# vga=784
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x256
# vga=769
notice mine is not listed there, I discovered 794 just by playing with
it. (I have a 19" monitor, and 794 sets it to 1280x1024 I believe.
> but I have it in a file under /etc/X11/xinit.d where it works fine.
> So, with this command enabled, xev recognizes the thumb buttons as 6
> and 7. With imwheel running xev sees these buttons as left and right.
> Without imwheel, mozilla and konq respond to the thumb buttons as if I
> were pressing the left and right arrow keys. The same applies when
> imwheel is running. The only difference I see, is that without
> imwheel, holding alt while pressing arrow keys does nothing, but with
> imwheel, this results in sliding the entire page left and right.
> However, at no point has anything I've tried resulted in a back button
> press.
That is truly odd. As I say, the only difference I can see is that i am
running xmodmap as a user, rather than as system.
> A couple of questions, are you using this mouse in ps2 port or USB?
It's a USB mouse, but I have it connected to PS/2 via an adapter.
> Also, I am running a vanilla 9.1 install with the exception of
> switching to ATI's video driver. Have you upgraded anything related to
> XFree, that might be affecting this? Only other thing I can think of
> is that maybe the window manager makes a difference, I guess I'll look
> into that next.
Well, I *did* upgrade to the latest XFree when advised to, I'm a
religious updater for all security and bug advisories, so I'm running:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/downloads/sylpheed-0.9.5-gtk2-20030906]>$rpm -qa | grep
XFree XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3-8.2mdk
XFree86-libs-4.3-8.2mdk
XFree86-server-4.3-8.2mdk
XFree86-xfs-4.3-8.2mdk
XFree86-4.3-8.2mdk
XFree86-devel-4.3-8.2mdk
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3-8.2mdk
but that shouldn't make any diff, nor should my WM.
The important parts, so far as I can see, are:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
Option "Buttons" "7"
EndSection
and the xmodmap -e added to your .xinitrc. In Mozilla and Galeon, what I
find is that the side buttons indeed work as left and right arrow,
without mod (alt), ie. scrolling left and right. With mod (alt), they
act as forward and back in history. But since I load all links in a new
window, and have them autogrouped into one frame, I can move between
pages with the mousewheel, for me preferable to anything else.
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