SuSE 7.3 and Logitech mouse

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Author: David A. Sinck
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Subject: SuSE 7.3 and Logitech mouse

\_ SMTP quoth Thomas Mondoshawan Tate on 12/6/2001 12:59 as having spake thusly:
\_
\_ On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 07:45:23AM -0700, William Lindley wrote:
\_ > Random observation -- I discovered that Netscape 4.7x ignores the scroll
\_ > wheel if the NumLock is on... go figure. (Why would anyone except a
\_ > laptop user turn NumLock off?)
\_ >
\_ > \\/
\_
\_ That would be not because of Netscape, but because of XFree86. X-Windows
\_ treats numlock, capslock and scroll lock as key modifiers like control, alt
\_ and shift.

Through clever magic of xrdb resources, you can get NumLock to
effectively be disregarded. Look for Netscape.ad and try rolling your
own for ignoring the NumLock.

David