Getting back/forward mouse buttons working as default

Chris Jones cmsj at tenshu.net
Fri Jan 7 08:56:10 CST 2005


Hi

On Fri, January 7, 2005 13:55, Eric Dunbar said:
> No idea to what you refer with 'scroll like crazy' (or scroll control ;-).

Hmm. I'm pretty sure it was imwheel that did it, but something used to do
mouse/scroll configuration and to get it's configuration window up you had
to put the mouse over the root window and scroll up and down really
quickly, it spotted this behaviour and displayed the window. It was quite
quite annoying ;)

> GUI is for -- once the user activates it, it starts up. Ubuntu _will_
> eventually have to go two or more disks so soon package size will not

I was thinking more about memory usage - there are already too many little
helper tools running away in the background, imo.

> obviously) for an example of an app that allows for a lot of
> configurability but does not make it too difficult. Essentially it

I don't doubt for a moment that it is useful and good and powerful, but
you said it yourself there, "lot of configurability" - that is *bad* for
most users.

Anyway, the decision is for Canonical people :)

Cheers,
-- 
Chris Jones
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