[ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

Jim Price d1version at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 7 21:26:02 UTC 2013


On 07/03/13 21:14, Neil Greenwood wrote:
> On Mar 7, 2013 8:29 PM, "Jim Price" <d1version at hotmail.com> wrote:

>> That's a reasonable workaround. Curiously the problem seems to have fixed
> itself now, and I have no idea whether it's because of something I did or
> not. I did do a re-install of gnome-terminal - maybe that did it.
>
> I saw something that might explain this only today. I was looking at the
> documentation for the terminator command that replaces gnome-terminal. It
> mentions the separate buffer that vim, less and similar programs use. It
> mentioned VTE, and how Ubuntu had patched the mouse wheel scrolling to make
> it optional. Sorry I can't remember any more detail than that, but it might
> give you some google-fodder...

Yes, I came across that in my Googling.




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