Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 11:42:04 +1100 From: Nick <nicks@albury.net.au> To: Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net> Cc: Gabriel Mains <gmains@southwind.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Logitech Mouse Wheel in FreeBSD 3.4 Message-ID: <20000111114204.A4213@albury.net.au> In-Reply-To: <387A7A0B.AB4F96D7@twave.net>; from brameld@twave.net on Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 07:32:11PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSI.4.21.0001101619190.15901-100000@jasper.southwind.net> <20000111094603.B87838@albury.net.au> <387A7A0B.AB4F96D7@twave.net>
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> > > 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." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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