cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/moused moused.8 moused.c

[Philip Paeps]

On 2004-10-12 09:44:08 (+0000), Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 12:59:00PM +0200, Philip Paeps wrote:
> > On 2004-10-11 09:37:00 (+0000), Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 07:57:08AM +0000, Philip Paeps wrote:
> > > >   Modified files:
> > > >     usr.sbin/moused      moused.8 moused.c 
> > > >   Log:
> > > >   Add 'virtual scrolling' support to moused(8).  When holding down the middle
> > > >   mouse button, motions are interpreted as scrolling.
> > > 
> > > This is totally cool, but may I ask if you are interested in adding the
> > > same functionality for wheel (since most mice come with wheel (middle
> > > button) today)?
> > 
> > It should Just Work[tm] if you hold the wheel down?  In most wheel-mouse,
> > the wheel acts as a middle button.
> 
> I know that. ;-) What I mean is, it would be nice if spinning (not pressing
> and holding) a wheel allowed me to scroll the console buffer.

Ah, I see. :-o  Mmm, that will require some magic in syscons I think.  It
shouldn't be too difficult to convince it that a certain mouse-event should
scroll up and another down.  I'll look into it :-)

 - Philip

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