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by **Younger** » Thu, 29 Jul 1999 04:00:00

I am running SuSE-6.1 distro on my AMD K6-2 400 MHz with a 4D+Scrolling
mouse. The mouse has 4 button and 2 wheels. Recently, I have downloaded
and compiled a copy of XFree86-3.3.4 and installed on my machine. I set
"ZAxisMapping X" to activate the wheels. It certainly moves the mouse
whenever I scroll either wheel. However, what I want is to be able to use
the wheel of the mouse to scroll the page up/down on any windows, not to
move the mouse pointer. Does anyone know what do I need to do to make the
wheel to work as I want?

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by **Michael Wellma** » Fri, 30 Jul 1999 04:00:00

I'm using a Kensington scroll mouse (3 button 1 wheel). There's a
page that tells how to set up X and wheel mice. I forgot what the
page was so you'll have to do a search.

You'll have to do two things though. First you'll have to have X
recognize the mouse and mapp all the buttons. Then you have to set up
the apps you use to respond properly to the mouse (via the .Xdefualts
file). Some app know how to use the wheel without using .Xdefualts
(Staroffice, Gnome apps, etc.).

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regarding Need help Setting UP Wheeled mouse:

> I am running SuSE-6.1 distro on my AMD K6-2 400 MHz with a
4D+Scrolling
> mouse. The mouse has 4 button and 2 wheels. Recently, I have
downloaded
> and compiled a copy of XFree86-3.3.4 and installed on my machine. I
set
> "ZAxisMapping X" to activate the wheels. It certainly moves the mouse
> whenever I scroll either wheel. However, what I want is to be able to
use
> the wheel of the mouse to scroll the page up/down on any windows, not
to
> move the mouse pointer. Does anyone know what do I need to do to make
the
> wheel to work as I want?
> --

> PS. Please remove 4 from the reply address should you decide to reply.