From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 10 16:43: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tarial.albury.net.au (tarial.albury.NET.AU [203.15.244.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE98F14EA5 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:42:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nicks@tarial.albury.net.au) Received: (from nicks@localhost) by tarial.albury.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA06091; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 11:42:04 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from nicks) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 11:42:04 +1100 From: Nick To: Walter Brameld Cc: Gabriel Mains , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Logitech Mouse Wheel in FreeBSD 3.4 Message-ID: <20000111114204.A4213@albury.net.au> Mail-Followup-To: Walter Brameld , Gabriel Mains , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000111094603.B87838@albury.net.au> <387A7A0B.AB4F96D7@twave.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <387A7A0B.AB4F96D7@twave.net>; from brameld@twave.net on Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 07:32:11PM -0500 X-Homer: Whoohooooooo! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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