Re: Mouse: thumbwheel support

FredK wrote:
By default in Motif CTRL-up/down arrow activates the scroll bar. Try it with the normal KB and see. All I did was to effectively implement a Linux hack from a while back - to make the thumbwheel generate the up/down arrow keys.

How dangerous would it be to change the driver to generate the page up/page down instead of up/down arrow key events ? (by dangerous, I mean if one coudl see user interface issues).

The impression I have so far (this is my first time using a computer with a working thumbwheel) is that moving just one line up/down doesn't seem to provide "action" to make it really that useful.
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