The Middle Button and Scrolling in Gtk+

Submitted by dylunio on Sun, 2007-04-29 16:02.

While using Gtk+ based applications you can use the middle mouse button on the scrollbar to move directly to that point, instead of moving to the point a page at a time.

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Cool. Related to that, in

Submitted by libervisco on Mon, 2007-04-30 12:06.

Cool. Related to that, in Firefox you can also click the middle click and scroll just by moving a mouse up and down. This way you can set it to scroll really slow (not sluggish) and smooth. Smiling

But that appears to be in FF only.

Cheers

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not just Firefox

Submitted by a thing on Mon, 2007-04-30 14:53.

That's not just in Firefox, it's in many applications. Inkscape, for example.

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Qt

Submitted by a thing on Mon, 2007-04-30 14:53.

This applies to Qt too.

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that's not default. If it

Submitted by free-zombie on Mon, 2007-04-30 15:02.

that's not default. If it were, that would break the URL-pasting functionality

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break URL pasting?

Submitted by a thing on Tue, 2007-05-01 04:38.

How would it break URL pasting when it only affects scrollbar widgets, not textboxes?

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I was replying to

Submitted by free-zombie on Tue, 2007-05-01 10:51.

I was replying to libervisco's post, which seams to be about middle-click-in-the-website-and-move-the-mouse-to-scroll, a concept AFAIK pioneered by MS internet explorer, supported by firefox, and illogical in X11.

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Actually, a thing is right.

Submitted by libervisco on Tue, 2007-05-01 15:14.

Actually, a thing is right. Middle click pasting works just fine in text areas (and you wont be using it anywhere else anyway), so it doesn't break anything. Middle clicking only outside of text boxes in normal uneditable areas is where the middle click scrolling kicks in.

Cheers

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