I am not seeing any problems on Ubuntu 18.10 running GC 3.4. Confused by the fact you say you are running 3.900 as I think 3.4 is the latest.
Are you running the standard (Gnome) version of Ubuntu? Are you using X or Wayland? That should be selectable from logon screen. I am running X. Colin On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 16:55, Steve Cohen <stevec...@gmail.com> wrote: > For two years something seemed not quite right about the use of scroll > bars in Gnucash register windows, but I always just "lived with it" in a > state of vague , not quite conscious annoyance. > > I have finally put my finger on the problem. > > When I click in the scroller and move my mouse, whenever the mouse > leaves the scroll bar area the display snaps back to where it was before > the scroll operation. I initially tried to carefully keep the mouse > within the scroll bar area, and that does prevent the display from > snapping back - but my new ephiphany is this: If I do manage not to > stray from the bounds of the scroll bar before releasing the mouse > button, then the display stays where my scrolling action left it BUT, > the moment I subsequently move the mouse out of the scroll bar area, the > display snaps to its previous position. In particular this makes it > impossible to edit an entry that was out of the visible scrolling area > but became visible after scrolling, as it is gone before I can click it. > The only way to get to a row not visible is by using the arrow keys or > PgUp, PgDown. Ironically, pressing those keys does move the scroller. > > I am running GNUCash version 3.900, which I built from source on > 2018-06-03 on Ubuntu 18.04. > > This is highly irritating and non-standard behavior, I think. Other > apps do not handle scrolling this way, such as the Thunderbird Mail > inbox, Libre Office Calc, etc. I was not able to find a setting that > would govern this behavior. Do others experience this, or is it a bug? > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
