Scroll mouse.

Hi, I have installed 12.1 32bit and am really surprised at the difference to previous installations. I have always installed 64bit and whilst they have been good the difference this time was really a case of WOW!. I think the difference this time is I have a cheap ( I don’t play games ) Nvidia card installed whereas previously an onboard Nvidia card was used and installing the driver could be hit and miss.
I selected the one click Nvidia install and it went perfectly. Adobe flash was perfect as well.
To my question. I have a mouse ( USB ) with a scroll wheel that doesn’t scroll. I have searched for a solution but as yet no success. Doesn’t really bother me but I thought I would ask for help.
Another thing I would like to ask is about getting a small prog to work at boot time.
I have asked this previously and was unable to get a solution. I have a small prog called F.lux which dims the monitor at night time according to the time of Sunset. Under Windows/Mac it installs auto and works great. However, under Suse ( apparently under Ubuntu it works auto ) I can only get it to work if I copy n paste the command into a Konsole. To this end I have the line typed into the word processor and simply CnP to the Konsole at boot up. Question, is there any way I can CnP it into the Konsole auto?
The line is: /home/eddie/Desktop/xflux -l 55.0 -g 6.0 N.
Any help as always greatly appreciated.

> I have a mouse ( USB ) with a scroll wheel that doesn’t
> scroll.

first, when asking for help here it is almost always useful/necessary
to mention the desktop environment you use…because very often the
answer will vary widely depending on your desktop…

but, 12.1 is pretty darn good at recognizing hardware so i suspect
you have a non-OS problem…are you sure the mouse scroll wheel still
works (they do wear out, eventually)? can you plug it into a
different USB port, or a different system altogether?

> The line is: /home/eddie/Desktop/xflux -l 55.0 -g 6.0 N.
> Any help as always greatly appreciated.

second, it is to your benefit put each different question into its
own thread with a descriptive subject (this is for your benefit
so the folks who know how to start a program during bootup look open
the posting…as it is you might get lots of scroll mouse gurus and
no . . .)

so, mention your desktop in reply and wait. (this launch-xflux is
drop dead easy in most desktops)


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My this forum has changed since last I was here. I have been coming to this forum for several years now and have always been treated with kindness and civility, unlike your smart arse reply!
I have been playing with computers for 35 plus years and over the years have helped out on several computer forums Windows/|Mac etc and can honestly say I have never applied the sarcasm that you so obviously enjoy. So guest, please don’t bother answering any more of my questions that I may choose to ask on this forum or I might have to ask you to go forth and multiply.
NB, on previous questions that I have put forth I have never once stated the Desktop. And as regard to the easiness of getting the command to work better people than you have tried and failed.

On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:36:01 +0000, dened wrote:

> My this forum has changed since last I was here. I have been coming to
> this forum for several years now and have always been treated with
> kindness and civility

Please keep it this way. Personal attacks are not permitted; if you
don’t like the answer you get from someone, that’s fine, but there’s no
reason to go on the attack against the person who provided you with the
answer. Don’t make us search for the information needed to help you - we
have thousands of posts a week here, and those who provide the necessary
information in their question are more likely to get helped than those
who say “I already told you this in a previous post, go find it”.

The answer in question simply was pointing out that you need to provide
some additional information for us to help you - we don’t have effective
tools for prognostication, so we only know what you tell us about your
system - and rather than guess, we’d rather have specific information
that helps us help you. When it’s not provided, someone’s bound to tell
you that you need to provide additional information. :slight_smile:

Jim

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