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The mysterious case of disappearing scroll wheel functionality... RESOLVED
Darwin:
Hi all - I didn't do a good job explaining my situation :o
Until yesterday morning, scrolling worked natiively (that is, WITHOUT Wizmouse) everywhere on my system. Then at some point scrolling became corrupted when viewing html content. I tried all sorts of fixes and came up short. Finally, I installed Wizmouse and functionality returned, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out why I now needed to run Wizmouse to enjoy functionality that comes built-in... EDIT: sorry Curt, I mis-read your post before writing the above.
However, Cranialscopical pointed me in the right direction. For the second time in the past year I find that I've hoisted myself on my own petard: it was a bloody beta (Actual Windows Manager 6.3 beta 2). The gory details are here :-[ What's particularly embarrassing is that I didn't try running IE 8 64-bit (thought of it but never got around to doing so) and I managed to overlook entirely the fact that AWM 6.3 beta 2 introduces the ability "to scroll the contents of inactive windows without the need to activate them". Doh! This new feature is enabled by default.
BTW, I find it very odd that Wizmouse was able to override AWM, rather than leading to even more corruption!
Thank you, Chris :-*
EDIT: Identified the culprit so that others might avoid my pain/embarrassment!
Darwin:
BTW, just an update, Actual Tools have already released a hotfix to address this issue. Unfortunately, their website just went down so I haven't been able to download and try it out ;D
Curt:
-I take it that their 'hot-fix' helped, then.
Are you using a wide screen monitor, Darwin? I ask because I have (a 4:3 monitor, and) a license for AWM, but I have not found any reason to install the program. Knowing that you have gone the minimalistic way, so you won't use AWM just for the fun of it, I suddenly realized that just maybe AWM really can be useful to me, as well! HOW do you use it?
Edited: their site is okay again. What on earth do I answer to their question: "*What do you download Actual Window Manager for?*"???!!!
Darwin:
Nevermind... the website is backup and I've installed the hotfix. Everything seems to work, with the exception of mouse wheel scrolling within the AWM options screens ;D
Darwin:
Hi Curt - sorry, our posts crossed each other in cyberspace!
I use AWM mostly for its ability to display discrete taskbars on my secondary monitor(s). This is SERIOUSLY underutilizing the software, but I have found it to be light on resources and non-intrusive. Before yesterday, I really had never had any trouble with it, bar a few beta releases that were resource hogs. I also have a license for UltraMon, which is a smaller and simpler app. I installed it, surreptitiously, on my wife's notebook so that I can run dual monitors when I have to troubleshoot it! Both work very well...
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