Jon Pennington wrote:
On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 04:10, Mark Hounschell wrote:
Not only that, but some (me) are using ANCIENT programs with imwheel because imwheel provides a feature that X/KDE DOES NOT. SMOOTH SCROLLING in netscape 4.x for one.
Not true. I've already disproven that. Adding a few lines to ~/.Xdefaults is just as easy as configuring an entire daemon to do the same job, IMHO.
Be so kind as to prove it to me and provide me with those lines so that I may try it please.
Once you've had it you'll not be able to go without it. The mouse wheel CAN scrool exactly like if you grabbed the side bar and moved it up and down.
Mine does already, and I have found no need for IMWheel since I converted to the XFree86 4 base over a year and a half ago.
Also the acroread pluggin for netscape will not scroll without it. So there IS a need for imwheel in the world for now.
I haven't tried acroread recently, since xpdf reads PDF files almost as well, and I prefer to read PDF files outside of my main browser window anyway. It may be noted that xpdf can run like acroread through the use of plugger, as well. The fact that I use xpdf instead of acroread is personal preference though,, and I'll not argue the superiority of one to the other. I will say that the wheel works perfectly with the native ZAxisMapping provided by X, however.
I still find xpdf buggy on some files. Regards -- Mark Hounschell dmarkh@cfl.rr.com