Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 20:45:34 -0500 From: Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net> To: Nick <nicks@albury.net.au> Cc: Gabriel Mains <gmains@southwind.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Logitech Mouse Wheel in FreeBSD 3.4 Message-ID: <387A8B3E.7906A02A@twave.net> References: <Pine.BSI.4.21.0001101619190.15901-100000@jasper.southwind.net> <20000111094603.B87838@albury.net.au> <387A7A0B.AB4F96D7@twave.net> <20000111114204.A4213@albury.net.au>
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Nick wrote: > > > > Does anyone know how to get the mouse wheel to work in X in FreeBSD? I > > > > have read the man pages on moused, but nothing I do seems to work. > > > > > > > > > > You need to run a relatively recent version of XFree, alter your XF86Config > > > and setup ~/.Xdefaults. > > > > > > The instructions at http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ worked > > > fine for my Logitech wheelie. > > > > > > Nick. > > > > > > > This is great, but where the heck is ~/.Xdefaults ? > > > > > > ~ is shorthand for your home directory. So ~/.Xdefaults is a file called > .Xdefaults in your home directory. > > >From memory, you may need to create it. > > Nick. > > -- > From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): > "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." That's where I put it, but it's not working yet. Trying to get netscape working with it. I'll recheck it tomorrow. Thanks for the info. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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