[BUG?]Re: Thanks to...

Ric fhj52ads at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 23 00:18:32 CEST 2003


Hey:

You _are_ a gem!

That (change to 7) was it.  Wheel works fine now as do all the other buttons.

Thank you.


--- Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:
> Ric,
> 
> Can you tru the one from:
> 
> http://www.xfce.org/archive/test/xfce-mcs-plugins-cvs.tar.bz2
> 
> TIA,
> Olivier.
> 
> On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 20:52, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> > 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
> > > ***
> > > Thought for today:
> > > The price of freedom is responsibility, but it's a bargain, because
> freedom is priceless. 
> > > ~ Hugh Downs
> > > 
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Have A Great Day!

Ric
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