[lug] scrollmouse and xemacs

[Ferdinand Schmid]

Rob Judd wrote:
>>I've been trying to get my scrollmouse to work under xemacs.  I came
>>across the mwheel lisp extension, which on my debian system is located in
>>/usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.6/lisp/
>>I have what I understand to be both the compiled version (mwheel.elc) and
>>the source (mwheel.el.gz).
>>
>>Looking at the source, it says to add the following lines to my .emacs
>>file:
>>;; (autoload 'mwheel-install "mwheel" "Enable mouse wheel support.")
>>;; (mwheel-install)
>>
>>I tried doing this with both my .emacs and .xemacs-options files.  I even
>>tried it removing the ;; at the beginning of each line.
> 
> 
> This won't so anything unless you remove the semi-colons from the start of
> the lines, so it is good that you did (those are elisp comment markers).
> I just use
> (require 'mwheel)
> and it works, however, I don't think this is your problem.  From your
> error messages it sounds as if the mwheel package loaded fine.  Those are
> what I would expect if X is not configured to work with a scroll mouse.
> Do you have any other applications that work with it - terminals, web
> browser, etc.?
> 
> You should have either
> 
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> 
> for XFree86-4, or
> 
> ZAxisMapping  4 5
> 
> for XFree86-3 in the mouse section of your X config file.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Rob
> 
I agree with Rob that you must have some X problem.  The wheel works for 
me even without any mention of mwheel or other mouse settings in my 
.emacs (SuSE makes xemacs call .emacs).

Ferdinand

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