SuSE 7.3 and Logitech mouse

David A. Sinck plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 11 Dec 2001 14:17:19 -0700


\_ 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