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       Wheel Mouse HOWTO (FreeBSD 4.0)


1)Install imwheel from the ports section.

> cd /usr/ports/x11/imwheel; make install; make clean

2)Edit XF96Config so that X recognizes the wheel. (XFree86 4.0)

> vi /etc/X11/XF86Config

a) Add the following line under "InputDevice"

  Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

3)Disable all 3-Button emulation, both in /etc/rc.conf and
in /etc/X11/XF86Config.

a) From /etc/X11/XF86Config

  #  Option "Emulate3Buttons"
  #  Option "Emulate3Timeout"  "50"

b) From /etc/rc.conf

  # moused_flags="-3"

4)Configure imwheel. (This step is optional)

> vi /usr/X11R6/etc/imwheelrc

a) Uncomment:

  #None,    Down,  Down,        7, 1000,  1000
  #None,    Up,   Up,         7, 1000,  1000

b) Comment:

  None,   Down,  Page_Down,     1, 1000,  1000
  None,   Up,   Page_Up,      1, 1000,  1000

This will make scrolling in Netscape more smooth.


5)Start up imwheel. This must be done ever time you start up a
new X session.

> imwheel -k

If you are running WindowMaker, you can ignore this step by putting
the following line into ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart

imwheel -k

And putting the follwing into ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/exitscript

killall imwheel



                          Eric Brueggmann
  4/16/2000

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