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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com>
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Subject: Re: mouse wheel in XFree86
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Chip Morton wrote:
> Well, since nobody could comment on KMail, lemme ask this one...how can I get
> the wheel of my mouse to work under XFree86?  I'm running KDE and FreeBSD
> 4.5-RELEASE if it matters.

A wheel mouse is a 5 button mouse.  Wheel up is button 4, and wheel
down is button 5 (click of the scroll wheel is button 3).

Bind these buttons to things like "scroll up" and scrill down",
and don't lie to the X server and tell it you have less than 5
buttons, and everything should just work.

-- Terry

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