Re: odd mouse scrollbar behavior

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 06:35 -0700, Dennis Kibbe wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 05:55:12 -0700
> Mike Hoy <mhoy4@cox.net> wrote:
>
> > this is NO big deal at all, but was wondering if anyone knows how to
> > configure the mouse better so all of it's functions can be used.
> >
> > BTW the 'locking' feature i'm talking about WORKS in thunderbird. I can
> > lock down the scroll bar and move the mouse around like I said above.
> >
> > the problem is on web pages only(firefox).
> >
> > I found out that what it's doing in place of 'locking' is pasting the
> > contents of the clipboard into the url, but only if it is a valid url.
> >
> > ex: if:
> >
> > foo bar is not a real word
> > is in my clipboard it won't paste http://foo bar is not a real word
> >
> > but plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us does past into
> > http//plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> >
> > kinda weird
> >
> > maybe Fedora Core 3 has taught my mouse a new trick? :-)
> >
> > mike h
>
> Mike,
>
> Normal behavior, I think. Works in Mozilla, too. Click the center button and whatever is in the clipboard is pasted into the address line and Mozilla takes you there if it's a valid URL or spits out an error.
>
> With a scroll mouse it's easy to press the wheel down (it's the center button, too) without thinking.
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even better than that...

open up an editor - oowriter is fine or anything else that is a full gui
editor. Select some text with the mouse on a web page.

Scroll wheel 'click' inside editing program - et voila

seems that this feature has been there for quite a while - depends if
Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
is set in xorg.conf or XF86Config

Craig

Craig

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