Re: Two motives of annoyance

Andrzej <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:11:04 +0000
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On 18/12/2025 18:12, [email protected] wrote:
> Using the mouse cursor on the side-bar of a window (not ON the side
> bar cursor) to move up or down in the display becomes unmanageable when
> the window displays a content of several thousands lines. How will I
> prevent this "acceleration" from raising my blood pressure ?

Do you perhaps mean the Gtk3 scrollbar behavior (the scrollbar slider 
jumping to the mouse pointer position rather than advancing towards it 
in single page steps)? If so, you can change it as described here:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/295988/how-to-fix-gtk3-scrollbar-behavior

|$ cat ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini [Settings] 
gtk-primary-button-warps-slider = false |

Apologies if you were asking about something else.

> With grateful thanks in advance, and best Xmas and New Year wishes from
> an old bugger in Paraguay (who started computing with punch cards on an
> IBM 1620 fifty years ago)

Welcome and best wishes to you too.

Andrzej


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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/12/2025 18:12, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>
      wrote:<span style="white-space: pre-wrap">
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    <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:20251218151247.70c8938c@RonBox">
      <pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">Using the mouse cursor on the side-bar of a window (not ON the side
bar cursor) to move up or down in the display becomes unmanageable when
the window displays a content of several thousands lines. How will I
prevent this "acceleration" from raising my blood pressure ?</pre>
    </blockquote>
    <p>Do you perhaps mean the Gtk3 scrollbar behavior (the scrollbar
      slider jumping to the mouse pointer position rather than advancing
      towards it in single page steps)? If so, you can change it as
      described here:</p>
    <p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/295988/how-to-fix-gtk3-scrollbar-behavior">https://askubuntu.com/questions/295988/how-to-fix-gtk3-scrollbar-behavior</a></p>
    <pre><code>$ cat ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
[Settings]
gtk-primary-button-warps-slider = false
</code></pre>
    <p>Apologies if you were asking about something else.</p>
    <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:20251218151247.70c8938c@RonBox">
      <pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">With grateful thanks in advance, and best Xmas and New Year wishes from
an old bugger in Paraguay (who started computing with punch cards on an
IBM 1620 fifty years ago)</pre>
    </blockquote>
    <p>Welcome and best wishes to you too.</p>
    <p>Andrzej</p>
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