Re: Anyone got a patch for letting the scroll-wheel work (in xterms)?
Alexey Toptygin <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Kenneth Crudup wrote: >>> Subject says it all, but if I'm not clear, I want to let the "Page Down" >>> (or "Up") key functionality while reading a long E-mail come from mouse- >>> wheel events, too. > > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Alexey Toptygin wrote: > >> This is not actually possible since the xterm captures mouse wheel events >> and doesn't send anything to the terminal. If you want to do this, you >> need to modify a terminal emulator to send PageUp/Down keystrokes to the >> terminal when the mouse whell is used. > > Huh. Thanks. I wonder how hard that could be? I'm still using (tying another > thread together) generic "xterm", maybe there's one out there that does this? Probably not. Every terminal I've seen that does anything with mouse wheel events uses them to scroll the scrollback buffer. If you wanted them to send PageUP/Down instead, you'd lose the wheel-scrolls-buffer functionality and I'd bet 99% of that terminal's users that have wheel mice would complain. I suppose you could make this a configurable behavior, but I honsetly don't think it's worth the effort. Alexey _______________________________________________ Pine-info mailing list [email protected] http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/pine-info