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Date:      Mon, 10 Jan 2000 21:04:07 -0500
From:      Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net>
To:        Nick <nicks@albury.net.au>, Gabriel Mains <gmains@southwind.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Logitech Mouse Wheel in FreeBSD 3.4
Message-ID:  <387A8F97.2EDC6373@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> <387A8B3E.7906A02A@twave.net>

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Walter Brameld wrote:

> 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

Boy, I sure had THAT file hosed! It's working now. Thanks again.

Walter



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