Re: Making my mouse wheel work on the fly

From: icebiker (icebiker_at_ca.inter.net)
Date: 10/06/04

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    Douglas G. Phillips wrote:

    >Jacob S <stormspotter@6Texans.net> writes:
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    >>>I wonder if it's KVM dependent . . .
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    >If, after it does this, does WinXP drop the mouse wheel as well, or does
    >it work as expected when you switch back?
    >
    >Another option that I would try is using GPM to handle the mouse (with
    >the repeater flag set) and tell X to talk to GPM -- that might help --
    >or at least you might be able to just bounce GPM and get the mouse
    >talking correctly.
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    The mouse wheel is well behaved, but I have noticed that sometimes the
    keyboard gets confused (shift gets stuck, etc.). I had to bounce
    OpenOffice spread*** on XP because it started ignoring the keyboard
    all together. I'm beginning to think that this is a rather shaky
    proposition at best. Today was a day of heavy switching between the two
    systems, and I guess that really highlighted the problem.

    I looked at some KVM vendors' offerings and the support databases, but
    none of them really address this issue. I can't even get a sense of
    whether more expensive units handle this better. I guess I'll just have
    to be careful.

    I'll research gpm, I wasn't aware of it.

    thanks - icebiker 

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