[Sheflug] Re: XFree tuning

["Craig Andrews" <nospam [at] fishbot.org.uk>]

Thats the same config as mine. You need something to translate buttons 4 and 5 to keypresses, tho', and thats where imwheel comes in, unless you run a windowmanager with direct support (icewm, and possibly KDE 2? I don't actually know)

Also, I would imagine it depends on the graphics driver. It seems to have some troubles when updating large portions of the screen (like scrolling a maximised browser window) so it could in fact be something to do with that?

Actually, I just found that xmms jumps if I scroll with the mouse in xfmail, but not if I scroll with the keyboard

Craig

-- Original Message --
Erm, 

I'm running XFree 4.0.3 on my RH7.1 box, and 4.0.1 on the RH7.0 boxen 
without any hassles. 

The mouse config in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 is 

Section "InputDevice" 
        Identifier      "Mouse0" 
        Driver          "mouse" 
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/mouse" 
        Option          "Protocol"              "IMPS/2" 
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "no" 
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5" 
EndSection 

It's the ZAxis bit that deals with the middle wheel. I tried using 
IMWheel with 3.3.6 and it was a nightmare - config files just to get 
Netscape to do it's thing right etc... 

XMMS doesn't skip a beat, both on my folk's machine (RH7, X4.0.1, 64Mb) and my 
own (RH7.1, X4.0.3, lots of Mb) when scrolling, opening windows, etc. 

I wouldn't say that the RH XFree setup is exactly tuned to perform... 


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