Wheel Mouse & Layout

Why the scrolling by the central wheel mouse (logitech) doesn't work in the
Layout windows?

Do you have some advice?

Tks, Roby

 

We've done some experimenting here, and the wheel can actually be assigned to
additional mouse "buttons" (buttons 4 and 5) for when you turn the wheel one
way or the other. I'm sorry, but I don't remember the exact driver options
to enable this (I didn't run the experiment).

One can then assign bindkeys to those mouse buttons (we were tying them to
"zoom in by two" and "zoom out by two") and they will work (at least they did
work in our test), assuming they have been properly enabled.

-Pete Zakel
()

"But soft you, the fair Ophelia:
Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws,
But get thee to a nunnery -- go!"

-Mark "The Bard" Twain

 

Roby,

I dont know why it doesn t work out-of-the-box. Beats me.

Anyway, like Pete mentions, it is rather straightforward to fix it.
For instance, go to options->bindkeys->layout , and set this:
key or mouse binding: <Btn5Down>
command: geScroll(nil \"s\" nil)

The command is simply taken from the binding of <Key>Down

Do the same with button 4 , and shift button 4, shift button 5, and you
have already something useful. You might want to put something in
enterfunction too.

Another possibility, maybe more flexible, is to use the IMwheel
program , under linux.

If the wheel doesn t work with other progs, you can check that your
Xserver is set up properly: start the "xev" program, move your mouse on
top of it, and roll the wheel. You should see event printed.