On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> hi
> about 2-3 months ago , thanks to this newletter , i managed to installed
> wheel on my LM 7.0 . now i have installed LM 7.1 .
> the confusing part is i have both XF86Config and XF86Config-4 in my /etc/X11
> folder. so i edited both of them according the description on
> mandrakeuser.org and linuxbrit.co.uk and copied imwheelrc as .imwheelrc to
> home directory with right permissions.
> sad part begins when i login as non su user and run imwheel -k i get an error
> massage as following :file or folder does not exist.imwheel process could not
> be verified.imwheel file could not be removed. operation not permitted."
> the only way of getting the wheel to run is using su command. do u have any
> suggestion about what i should do to get imwheel running without using su ?
> what shall i do to make it autostart ?
> thanks in advance
This is a newbie answering but I've been where you are. Yes you can put it in
your autostart folder. First you must make a kdelink for it which you put in
the autostart folder. To create a kdelink on your desktop, right mouse
click/new/folder. Put in a name like imwheel.kdelink. Under execute put in
imwheel -k. Close it and then drag it into your autostart folder.
The anser to the su problem is that when su starts up it runs imwheel -k
replacing it with a imwheel.pid that su created and owns. The normal user
cannot overwrite it and thus imwheel is non functional in the user world. To
correct this, you need to put imwheel -k in your root (the su) bash_logout
file. That causes it to kill its own imwheel.pid when it exits and thus allows
the user to create another one that the user owns and works for him.
I hope this helps.
-- Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Registered Linux User 348854
