Wheel Scrolling Features in Mozilla, Netscape, Kmail

Chris W

No, this is not the usual "How do you make it work" post.

I have my Intellimouse Explorer wheel mapped and working fine in Konqueror. In Mozilla (and Netscape) the wheel also works except for an annoying problem. When scrolling backward (up) through a document using the wheel, if the mouse moves left or right mozilla starts selecting text as it scrolls. The behaviour is only present when scrolling up, not down. In KMail scrolling up over the message list opens the first email you scroll over in a separate window... as if it had been double-clicked.

Is anybody else seeing that behaviour? Any suggestions to eliminate it?

My system is up-to-date with the exception of my kernel, which is vanilla 2.4.18 because the patches cripple the psaux port (device not found).

Relevant section from XF86Config:

jay · l33t Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 980

I thought ZAxisMapping ought to be "4 5"
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Chris W · Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 10:02 pm Post subject: ZAxisMapping...

With the five button plus wheel arrangement of the Explorer the wheel behaves as buttons 6 and 7. However, Mozilla et al. expect it to be 4 and 5, which is why the xmodmap is required to rearrange the order.

Thanks for the thought.
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mksoft · l33t Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 844

Chris W · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 7:49 am Post subject: Thanks...

Thanks jay and mksoft, that does indeed work, and the selecting behaviour disappears. The two side buttons no longer generate X events though, so there goes the possibility of getting those to work. Not sure I understand why it didn't work with the mappings, but I'll quit while I'm ahead and go fry some bigger fish.
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asimon · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 10:20 am Post subject: Re: ZAxisMapping...

Chris W

It's is good to know that I was not barking up the wrong tree. I'm happy enough, for the time being, with just the scroll wheel working.
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Gominik · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 39 Location: Germany

Hi

I have a KDE_3 startscript. It looks like this

#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/mousemap F6 F7 "1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
/usr/kde/3/bin/startkde

for KDM

So my left button is F6, the right button is F7 and I can scroll up/down with the wheel without problem.

You just have to get mousemap

Bye
Gom

Jonteponte · n00b Joined: 19 Oct 2002 Posts: 33

Where can I find mousemap?

Thanks

edit:found it

gillesg · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Sep 2002 Posts: 90

Has anyone succeed having the left and right button doing
back and forward in any browser?

Gilles

Naughtyus · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 6:50 am Post subject:

I got X to detect all 7 buttons (left, right, scroll, leftthumb, rightthumb), without installing any extra progs, with the help of this thread: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=10956. I still can't figure out how to actually map them to fuctions in mozilla (or any other program for that matter).

Does anyone have any instructions? (.. My question is the same as the above, but I want to bump the thread!

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Naughtyus · Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2002 8:09 am Post subject:

(anyone?)

TripKnot · Apprentice Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 213

You can use the mousemap program mentioned above to map the side buttons to F11 and F12 or whatever else your heart desires. You can then map F11/F12 to forward and back. I have gotten this to work in KDE with konqueror(KDE has an autostart dir that is used) but can't get it to work with fluxbox. I seem to have troubles connecting to X when mousemap is loaded from .xinitrc, or maybe its mousemap thats the problem, I don't know.

However, it seems REALLY hard to find this mousemap prog, so I will host my copy here:
http://66.24.125.81