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TIP: Working with a wheel mouse

Posted by Jason on Monday March 26, @10:34PM
from the Roll-Your-Own dept.
If you have an Intellimouse, you can use the wheel in X-Windows.

Checkout the imwheel port - /usr/ports/x11/imwheel. It works with the Logitech wheel mouse and may work with others.

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Scroll Wheel : You can also do this:
by Understudy on Wednesday May 15, @11:59AM

Edit your XF86Config file. #ee /etc/XF86Config <---That is where mine is yours may or may not be in this location. You probably have a section that looks like this:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection
Make it look like this:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Now the two lines I added Option Buttons and Options ZAxisMapping will also make yor scroll wheel work. I test mine with Kword and Konquer. It doesn't matter if you don't have a five button mouse. You can leave it like as it is shown. Enjoy.

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