[lug] Pointer goes nuts

[Tim Klein]

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"J. Wayde Allen" wrote:
> > You actually have a use for the wheel?  I always think it looks
> > interesting, but have never really seen anyone use one.  Interesting -
> > what does it do?

I can't live without my scroll wheel!  It is very handy, for web browsing or 
documents reading it can't be beat.

On Tuesday 24 July 2001 04:20 pm, John Hernandez wrote:
> It controls vertical scroll in a window (akin to up/down keyboard arrows or
> clicking on the scroll bar), although not as consistently as it does in
> Windoze.  With Linux, it seems to take some massaging (adding stuff to
> .Xdefaults) to make it work for different apps.  Things like this make
> Linux (and X-windows) a little frustrating for people accustomed to a
> plug-n-play world.
>

In Qt 2.x or something like that, support for scroll wheel was added.  GTK 
has it, too.  Thus both KDE and GNOME apps have native support for the scroll 
wheel.  This was one of the major reasons I switched back to KDE 2 recently 
- -- execellent scroll wheel integration.  Any more, if an application doesn't 
support the scroll wheel, I don't use it.  That is the major reason I never 
fire up Netscape any more (strictly Konqueror for me).  Well, the scroll 
wheel and Anti-Aliased fonts.  But in KDE an GNOME apps, support for the 
wheel is very consistent and intelligent.  It is only on older gui tookits 
that you have to do any hacking on a config file.  Qt and GTK both 'just 
work'.  Motif, Athena, Xt, and the like all need some hacks, some of them 
kind of ugly.  There is a program called imwheel that supposedly does 
something about this, but I have never used it.

The scroll wheel is a real boon, I'm addicted! 

Tim

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