[ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

[Tony Pursell]

Hi Jim

On 7 March 2013 16:49, Jim Price <d1version at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm using Gnome terminal in Mythbuntu 12.04 and mouse-wheel scrolling
> works fine for scrolling back and forward through terminal history, but
> whenever I view a manpage, the mouse wheel no longer scrolls. I've Googled,
> and discovered that man uses less to display the pages, but all the things
> I've tried from Googling have failed to solve the issue. I've tried setting
> options using the LESS environment variable, lesskey, and played with the
> scrolling settings in Gnome terminal, but all to no avail. The same issue
> happens in XFCE terminal, so I think it might be something to do with less
> rather than the terminal used. Can anyone suggest what might be happening
> here or does anyone know of a solution?
>
> -
>

man command | cat

where command is the command you want to browse, will dump everything to
the terminal and you can scroll back up through it with the mouse wheel (I
hope),

Tony
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