mouse wheel not working with xterm

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Wed, 18 May 2005, jose isaias cabrera wrote:

> Well, it does not acknowledge the scroll.  Here is an excerpt of the run:

What I see is: 

> ButtonPress event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0xa00001,
>     root 0x3a, subw 0x0, time 12742062, (90,6), root:(589,50),
>     state 0x0, button 1, same_screen YES
> 
> ButtonRelease event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0xa00001,
>     root 0x3a, subw 0x0, time 12742442, (90,6), root:(589,50),
>     state 0x100, button 1, same_screen YES

Left mouse button
> 
> ButtonPress event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0xa00001,
>     root 0x3a, subw 0x0, time 12743123, (90,6), root:(589,50),
>     state 0x0, button 3, same_screen YES
> 
> ButtonRelease event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0xa00001,
>     root 0x3a, subw 0x0, time 12743744, (90,6), root:(589,50),
>     state 0x400, button 3, same_screen YES

Right Mouse button

 
> ButtonPress event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0xa00001,
>     root 0x3a, subw 0x0, time 12745937, (90,6), root:(589,50),
>     state 0x0, button 2, same_screen YES
> 
> ButtonRelease event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0xa00001,
>     root 0x3a, subw 0x0, time 12746558, (90,6), root:(589,50),
>     state 0x200, button 2, same_screen YES

Middle Button.

> > Some mouse driver do strange stuff with
> > the button and don't report it as normal scroll messages.
> 
> This is probably the case here.  Any ideas on how to make it acknowledge the 
> scroll?

The mouse driver configuration should provide a choice for this. I don't
know the driver for this kind so you're quite on your own there.

bye
	ago
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