Using imwheel with Freebsd 6.1 and xorg 6.9.0_2

[Eric W. Bates]

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> "Eric W. Bates" <ericx at vineyard.net> writes:
>> There are a couple of HowTos on-line which describe how to configure
>> imwheel to work with X11 and FreeBSD.
> 
> You don't need imwheel.  With FreeBSD 6.1 and X.org 6.9, wheel mice
> should work out of the box: devd (enabled by default) starts moused
> (default configuration works fine for USB mice) when a USB mouse is
> plugged in, and X understands wheel events from moused without any
> special configuration.

emacs scrolling works with imwheel; but not without it.  Other apps I've
tested ALL work without imwheel (emacs is the only exception, I've found
 -- but my emacs doesn't have scrollbars configured):
xterm
konsole
firefox
thunderbird
Openoffice 2.x
KDE Control Center


> The only problem you may run into is the IntelliMouse Explorer issue,
> where fast scrolling in a browser window may be misinterpreted as
> forward / backward history commands.
> 
> DES


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Eric W. Bates
ericx at vineyard.net
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