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Jasen <xx@yy.zz> writes:

> Does anybody know how to enable mouse wheel on Linux? I'm using Redhat
> 8.0 and Emacs 21.2.
> 
> In emacs, mouse-wheel-mode is t but it doesn't response to mouse wheel
> action.

Hi,

I had the same problem because I had in my .emacs
(setq mouse-wheel-mode t).


However 

Setting this variable directly does not take effect;
use either M-x customize or the function `mouse-wheel-mode'

Now I have in .emacs (mouse-wheel-mode 1) and everything works fine.

--
Jiri Pejchal