[OLUG] mouse wheel

[Adam Lassek]

Oh, okay, so I could probably map wheel-up/wheel-down to the arrow keys.
thanks for the tip

"Chad S. Lauritsen" wrote:
> 
> thanks for the tip about the wheel working with gnome and about imwheel.
> Imwheel apparently grabs the wheel-up/wheel-down events and translates
> them to keys. I found that by pressing the left shift key, the wheel
> appears to emulate arrow-up/arrow-down. Weird thing is that when imwheel
> is running, it appears to leave that shift key down as though it were
> sticky or something. when i let it off, things resume to normal. E.g.
> press the shift key, do some scrolling, then when I type, it's as though
> the shift key were down. Press the shift key again, and back to normal.
> 
> Check out /etc/imwheelrc for more details, you can also create a
> ~/.imwheelrc
> docs are in /usr/doc/packages/imwheel (i used the rpm to install it).
> 
> Adam Lassek wrote:
> >
> > everything. that's all I did before, and it worked. you have to add it in
> > with the mouse settings, and you also have to set the protocol to IMPS/2.
> > But, it doesn't work with KDE, and imwheel scrolls too fast, so I kinda need
> > another way of doing it.
> >
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