Sunday, August 29, 2004 |
Freshmeat |
Sourceforge |
IMWheel 1.0.0pre12 Released(* Security Fix *)
imwheel-1.0.0pre12.tar.gz, is now available in the all files directory. Please read DEVELOPMENT.txt for my comments and information. No docs updated.
To tell you the truth, there's not a whole lot of reason to installing imwheel as SUID root anymore. Expect that to disappear in the new release...unless someone can convince me otherwise.
slackware-current package
IMWheel 1.0.0pre11 Released
imwheel-1.0.0pre11.tar.gz, is now available in the all files directory. Please read DEVELOPMENT.txt for my comments and information. No docs updated, except the Changelog.
slackware-current package
IMWheel 1.0.0pre10 Released
imwheel-1.0.0pre10.tar.gz, is now available in the all files directory. Please read DEVELOPMENT.txt for my comments and information. No docs updated, except the Changelog.
slackware-current package
IMWheel 1.0.0pre9 Released
imwheel-1.0.0pre9.tar.gz, is now available in the all files directory. Please read DEVELOPMENT.txt for my comments and information. No docs updated, except the Changelog. I highly suggest renovating your imwheelrc since the default action is now to repeat the same button to the application! (see the DEVELOPMENT.txt and my imwheelrc below)
slackware-current package
IMWheel 1.0.0pre8 Released
imwheel-1.0.0pre8.tar.gz, is now available in the all files directory. Please read DEVELOPMENT.txt for my comments and information. No docs updated, except the Changelog.
IMWheel 1.0.0pre7 Sorta Released
imwheel-1.0.0pre7.tar.gz, is now available in the all files directory. Please read DEVELOPMENT.txt for my comments and information. No docs updated, except the Changelog.
IMWheel 1.0.0pre6 Released
imwheel-1.0.0pre6.tar.gz, is now available in the all files directory. Please read DEVELOPMENT.txt for my comments and information. No docs updated, except the Changelog.
IMWheel 1.0.0pre5 Released
imwheel-1.0.0pre5.tar.gz, is now available in the all files directory. Please read DEVELOPMENT.txt for my comments and information. No docs updated, except the Changelog.
UPDATE: released a fixed package, as the old one missed stuff
IMWheel 1.0.0pre4 Released
imwheel-1.0.0pre4.tar.gz, is now available in the all files directory. Please read DEVELOPMENT.txt for my comments and information. No docs updated, except the Changelog.
IMWheel 1.0.0pre3 Released
imwheel-1.0.0pre3.tar.gz, is now available in the all files directory. Please read DEVELOPMENT.txt for my comments and information. No docs updated, except the Changelog.
UPDATE: The GPM_NO_DOC error/warning/whatever is fixed (hopefully). Redownload the archive for the fix.
IMWheel 1.0.0pre2 Released
imwheel-1.0.0pre2.tar.gz, is now available in the all files directory. Please read DEVELOPMENT.txt for my comments and information. Only the manpage is up to date. The readme is now depreciated, because it's silly to keep docs up to date in two places.
IMWheel 1.0.0pre1 Released
imwheel-1.0.0pre1.tar.gz, is now available in the all files directory. Please read DEVELOPMENT.txt for my comments and information. Only the manpage is up to date, still, I think!
IMWheel on IRC
Go to irc.freenode.net #imwheel and I may be there!
IMWheel 0.9.9 Released
imwheel-0.9.9.tar.gz, is now available in the all files directory. Please read DEVELOPMENT.txt for my comments and information. Only the manpage is up to date!
(NOTE: Some News has been lost due to a hard drive crash...)
IMWheel 0.9.9pre2 and below have a security hole
The first line of any file can be given in debug output if imwheel is installed as suid-root. Basically any user can symlink their $HOME/.imwheelrc to any file and dump the first line. This could allow the first account in the shadow password file to be cracked. The fixed version, imwheel-0.9.9pre3.tar.gz, is now available in the all files directory. Please read DEVELOPMENT.txt for my comments and information on prereleases.
IMWheel 0.9.8 and below have a security hole
TESO and zero knowledge have released the advisory that imwheel has a hole. This affects only SUID imwheel or people who have a SUID wrapper to run imwheel. Please patch your imwheel 0.9.8 source with this patch to fix it. The next version of imwheel, version 0.9.9, already is fixed, but is not ready for release. Thanks go out to Francis Galiegue <francis@mandrakesoft.com> for giving me the patch. Most people just pointed me to the problem statement, which gave me no clue as to how to fix it.
XFree86 4.0 usage with GPM and/or JAM
UPDATE:XFree 4.0a (an internal working product of the xfree86 group, is said to have fixed this problem. I have submitted a request to join the xfree86 organization. If I get such approval, I will make sure that imwheel, gpm, and future XFree86 releases are compatible. Meanwhile use the XGrabButton method to get things done and avoid using gpm/jam type programs.
XFree86 4.0 has a broken mouse driver in the respect that it fails to work with FIFOs. Because of this problem, only Method #1, the XGrabButton method, will work. You should disable GPM or at least NOT run it with the "-R" nor "-W" arguments. If your mouse works with the XServer's mouse driver and you can use the ZAxis wheel to button mapping, then run IMWheel without the -W/--wheel-fifo option. Using -k will have no effect, and you may see a warning, but it is just a warning, not an error. It will complain that another imwheel process may be running but that we don't do anything with that, because we don't need to!
I am looking into the reasoning behind messing the FIFO ability up, and I have looked into the source code for XFree86 4.0, and I think it is because they try to do more interaction with the mice on initialization, but the problem is that FIFOs are one way communication channels, thus no FIFO mouse emulation will work because it cannot send the proper responses back to the driver. So we'll have to wait and see where this goes. Meanwhile I'm also considering making a replacement mouse.so module to fix what they broke.
VNC Wheel support
Here's a link for mouse wheel support in VNC for the Microsoft Windows version of VNC. (this link is to avoid any questions to me about it). IMWheel can then be used on the UNIX VNC server through a Windows VNC session to that UNIX machine.
In short, it's a program to use that good ol' Microsoft Intellimouse Wheel under XFree86 (and other servers) on Linux (others as well, including 4+ button mice!). So use this program and make Microsoft hardware useful for another OS! I hope this thought makes Billy Goats shiver ;)
IMWheel also supports stick type mouse with all directions of motion. GPM has been altered to support stick mice as well. IMWheel has been proven to work for many people and is the choice of a lazy generation (downloading and compiling/installing is excepted in this clause). I'm lazy too...so why the heck did I do all this code! Because I like too...and besides who can find X application resource settings to configure the wheel for everything?
IMWheel supports Linux and FreeBSD.
Linux users should get the regular archive.
FreeBSD users should configure imwheel not to use gpm.
Your suggestions have been taken too heart and I added support for as much as suggested as possible. If you have another suggestion don't hesitate to email it to me. They will be integrated into jam/xwheel.
Don't forget to merge the new imwheelrc with your own!!! get my imwheelrc file here.
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Get the pre-release versions from the following link, using a pre-release version is the best way to get new features and bug fixes fast. It also helps me if you report on the status of your pre-release experiences, good and bad. This helps determine the readiness of the pre-release to become a full release. I try not to pre-release or release buggy versions, but I can only confirm my experience through you, the user! Enjoy, but tell me how much! (It's only an E-Mail, geez!)
CVS anonymous read-only access
mkdir a directory to check the files out into, and cd into it.cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@jonatkins.org:/usr/local/cvsroot/imwheel logincvs -d :pserver:anonymous@jonatkins.org:/usr/local/cvsroot/imwheel co .configure and make as usual (read README and INSTALL)
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