In my opinion the complication that (is it GTK3 or Xfce that's doing it ?) with the scrolling in new versions of Xubuntu is nuts. There's also the scheme they do now were they hide the scroll bar till you mouse over it - I turn that off whenever I can.
So try RIGHT clicking in the scrollbar space instead of left clicking your mouse or touchpad. That's supposed to do what the left click used to do. Sometimes it moves up/down just one line other times it's been the page up/down as expected. A page at a time is how humans read so don't ask me why they did it and why AFAIK there's no easy check boxes to configure it. On Fri, Nov 18, 2016, at 08:43 PM, Len Philpot wrote: > On 11/18/2016 09:06 PM, fred roller wrote: > > Generally speaking pgup/pgdwn button will scroll 1 "page". clicking > in the space above or below the scroll position indicator on the scroll > bar will page up or down respectively as well. Are you looking for > something more specific? > > It's not consistent, but so far I've rarely seen clicks in the open area > of the scroll bar behave like PgUp/PgDn (which is what I'd like). Thunar > and Okular (KDE app), I believe, page normally.... probably LibreOffice > as well (although that's an almost independent widget set). > > For example, in xfce4-terminal, if I'm on the command line (i.e., at the > bottom of the scroll buffer) and I click in the scroll bar space between > the thumb and up arrow, it doesn't move up one page - It jumps to the > top of the scroll buffer. If I click in the space between slider and > down arrow it jumps to the bottom (many, many "pages"). Same behavior in > Gnome Commander and xfconf editor. > > Gnome Terminal and Mousepad jump directly to the clicked location > (proportionally), not all the way, but not a page up/down either. > > My point is that I'd like to make it as consistent as possible, if > possible. I realize that given Gnome, QT, KDE, Xt, Fox, Motif, SWT/Java, > etc., etc. (all those widget toolkits), there will be variability. And I > can't reliably tell which apps are built on which platforms... some, but > not all. But even if I could "consistify" :-) things just for Gnome/Xfce > apps it would be a huge improvement. For example, why do xfce4-terminal, > Mousepad and Thunar have different behaviors in that regard? > > Then again, this is definitely fine-tuning of a great DE, so I'm not > complaining. > > Thanks. > > *Len Philpot* > lphilpo...@gmail.com <mailto:lphilpo...@gmail.com> > /Sent from Thunderbird on Xubuntu Linux/ > > -- > xubuntu-users mailing list > xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users -- http://www.fastmail.com - A fast, anti-spam email service. -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
