On Mar 7, 2013 8:29 PM, "Jim Price" <<a href="mailto:d1version@hotmail.com">d1version@hotmail.com</a>> wrote: > > On 07/03/13 18:12, Tony Pursell wrote: >> >> On 7 March 2013 16:49, Jim Price <<a href="mailto:d1version@hotmail.com">d1version@hotmail.com</a>> wrote: > > >>> 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? >> >> >> [snip] > > 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... Neil