Mozilla 1.3 and MS Intellimouse Explorer

C.M

Does anyone know how to get the side buttons to work in Mozilla 1.3?

I'm using imwheel and the back/forward buttons work perfectly in Phoenix (phoenix-bin). In Mozilla it's like the Alt-button isn't pressed at all. Instead one click moves the cursor left 1 step, and if I hold down Alt and click it moves 10 steps. The side buttons are mapped to be Up and Down, and are at button 6 and 7.

I guess the problem comes because I've compiled Mozilla with gtk2 (WANT_GTK2="yes"). Is this a bug, or have I missed something really trivial? I've searched the forums but found no post about this. Nothing on google either.

easykill · Apprentice Joined: 07 Dec 2002 Posts: 230

gtk2 doesn't prevent my side buttons from working with mozilla 1.3

search the documentation and tips forum for intellimouse and there is a great thread there on setting it up.

if that doesn't work, i might be able to help more, but try searching for that first.

djf_jeff · Apprentice Joined: 17 Feb 2003 Posts: 174 Location: Quebec

Maybe you speak french... I write a tutorial on this at http://www.megaoctet.net/dossier11.php.

If you can read french, I'm sure you will be able to understand.

thadk · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jun 2002 Posts: 123

I have been having the same issue ever since I started using gtk2 with phoenix, mozilla and galeon. I have tried about everything I could come up with and everything recommended on the forum.

djf_jeff: are you sure that you'd used the gtk2 version of phoenix and mozzy?

I heard that imwheel has issues with gtk2 right now. if you try to target a gtk2 window in it's configurator it fails. Maybe that has something to do with it. But when the default main config file (/etc/X11/imwheelrc) is used and the scroller functionality is replaced by page-up/page-down imwheel seems to do it's job okay. But I can reproduce the mozilla scroll-up-10-lines glich that cm mentioned no matter whether there is a config file for imwheel at all (~/.imwheelrc & /etc/X11/imwheelrc).

C.M · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 10:30 am Post subject:

Thanks for the tips, but I'm still not getting it to work. I read a lot on the forums even before I asked, but still couldn't get it working. I've tested the imwheel -c thing to make sure that the sidebuttons work, and they do.

I've added a script called fixmouse.sh to my Gnome Startup Programs. The file right now is:

thadk · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jun 2002 Posts: 123

Like I said, I think it has to do with GTK2, the phoenix-bin package isn't compiled with gtk2 while I believe that the newest mozilla release uses it by default. I betcha if you tried the phoenix-cvs one and set the USE_GTK2=yes it would show the same problem.

I can delete all my config files for imwheel and still have it jump 10 lines when i use the back/forward mouse buttons.

djf_jeff · Apprentice Joined: 17 Feb 2003 Posts: 174 Location: Quebec

It's doesn't work for me with gtk2 rigth now...

I've have test several config but nothing to do... imwheel -p say it's correct but mozilla 1.3 dont reconize it...

C.M · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2003 1:22 pm Post subject:

Ok, thanks. At least I'm not the only one with the problem. Just updated to gnome 2.2.1, but it still doesn't work. Guess I have to be a little more patient..

TRauMa · n00b Joined: 26 Nov 2002 Posts: 43 Location: Germany

Did anyone of you try

TRauMa · n00b Joined: 26 Nov 2002 Posts: 43 Location: Germany

Here I found a hack which din't work, compiling right now without gtk2, we'll see if this is better.

thadk · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jun 2002 Posts: 123

This fixed the problem with GTK2 Mozilla-spawn for me:

~/.imwheelrc

TRauMa · n00b Joined: 26 Nov 2002 Posts: 43 Location: Germany

As ssaid above didn't WFM, but reverting to gtk1 did. Responsiveness is also much better now.