[BUG?]Re: Thanks to...

[Olivier Fourdan]

Ric,

What's the value of "ZAxisMapping"?

It defines what buttons are used for wheel...

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 14:48, Ric wrote:
> Hi:
> Please allow me to rephrase the thank you to say "Thank you _in Advance_ " to
> the gem of a person that goes into the mcs-plugins and fixes whatever it is
> that is busting the ability to use the wheel on the mouse device.
> That's right, /me dummy here skipped the mcs-plugins and did not have it
> built/installed before(oops!).  *The mouse and wheel worked great.*   But as
> soon as mcs-plugins was installed (and LO/LI to restart X), the mouse wheel
> died - it no longer works in any of the aps that it had worked in with RC2
> just a few minutes before. 
> 
> I am just guessing, but could it be that the mouse_plugins.c file assumes
> there are only five buttons, including the wheel button and that is somehow
> causing the problem?   
>  
> As a work-around, is there a way to successfully build/install/use mcs-plugins
> _without_ the mouse plugin since that is probably what is killing the wheel?  
> You know, an option to configure like "--without-mouse" . (./configure -- help
> was no help on that)
> 
> TIA
> 
> FYI:
> The mouse is a (Belkin) 4 button + wheel mouse = 7 buttons by "X" standards( 
> xmodmap is 1 2 3 6 7 4 5 ). The 4 buttons work and the mouse wheel button
> works but the wheel rotate + and -  do not.  Those two +/- "buttons" do not
> change position on the page, move scrollbars, etc.   However, I have noticed
> that the sensitivity of the wheel button is way too high - barely touch the
> wheel and I get the same same effect as double clicking with button one(it
> highlight the word under the cursor)... sometimes.  It does the same thing
> whether the wheel rotates up or down.  Sometimes the effect is a
> 'triple-click'.
> 
> ========================
> --- Ric <fhj52ads at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > all - anybody- whoever changed whatever was keeping the mouse wheel 
> >  from 'just' working in XFce4 on some systems.
> > It works just great now!
> > 
> > ( It's kinda funny - some years back I never used the wheel -did not like
> > it; got in the way most of the time. But after using it for a long time, it
> > got to be habit.  Now I really miss it if it is not there. THNX )
> > 
> > =====
> > Have A Great Day!
> > 
> > Ric
> > ***
> 
> 
> 
> 
> =====
> Have A Great Day!
> 
> Ric
> ***
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> ~ Hugh Downs
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