How does a scroll mouse work in X?

[ille_pugil42]

Okie, I've edited my settings and I can get my scroll mouse to work with Slack7.0/X4.0, problem is, the cursor needs to be ontop of the scroll bar for the wheel to work. Is that how it works in linux? Winbloze will let it scroll the active window no matter where the cursor is at. Any ideas?

[Strike]

You didn't really get the scrolling to work, you basically got X to recognize the scroll up and scroll down as buttons 4 and 5 (with the scroll wheel itself being button 3). It's up to the programs to support the scrolling, for the most part, I believe. What program is it not working for?

[ille_pugil42]

well Gedit is the only proggy I've tried (and netscape I've heard is hideous). I've also noticed that If I scroll on a menubar (at very top of window) that it will 'hide' (window scrolls up until menubar is all that is left of window) and 'unhide'. System is Slack 7, X 4.0 and Enlight. What else could I be missing?

[lad24mx]

Originally posted by ille_pugil42:
Okie, I've edited my settings and I can get my scroll mouse to work with Slack7.0/X4.0, problem is, the cursor needs to be ontop of the scroll bar for the wheel to work. Is that how it works in linux? Winbloze will let it scroll the active window no matter where the cursor is at. Any ideas?

Go to http://x.themes.org There you'll find .Xdefault files that people have edited look for the ones related to Netscape, open them in your favorite text editor and then copy/paste its contents into your /home/user/.Xdefault file, restart or reboot your system, then connect to the net, open Netscape and voila !!! Your wheel mouse works.

This works under Netscape only.

Robert

[lad24mx]

Darn !!! I messed up on my previous posting.
The file you should look for is not named .Xdefault but .Xdefaults /home/user/.Xdefaults

[ille_pugil42]

how about the other proggies? are they supposed to work like I posted above, or am I missing something else?

[Shad]

I use imwheel, and it makes the mouse functionally similiar to use in MSWindows.

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[lad24mx]

As far as I know, you shouldn't need any external programs when running Xfree 4.x

[lad24mx]

Here's a link to the xfree website where they explain that wheel mouse support has been integrated into the new X server.
http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.1/mouse2.html

Robert.

[ille_pugil42]

Thanks for all the help, will try some things tonight.