Re: [ILUG] Wheel Mouse

From: Justin Mason (jm at domain netnoteinc.com)
Date: Mon 20 Sep 1999 - 15:44:10 IST


"Liam Bedford" said:
>
> > How well is the wheel mouse suppported in Linux.
> > What are the possibilities, how can they be implemented?
> >
> Depends... X supports it under Linux (not under FreeBSD though). You need to
> change
> the mouse type to IMPS/2 (instead of PS/2) (if it's a MS one), and add
> buttons 5
> ZAxisMapping 4 5

You can also get gpm and imwheel -- with those 2 pkgs you get great wheel
support, and can re-bind what the wheel does in different apps really
easily. Great fun,

--j.



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