mouse wheel wrong direction?
Kurt V. Hindenburg
khindenburg at cherrynebula.net
Sat Dec 6 07:44:46 CET 2003
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Saturday 06 December 2003 01:30 am, Bob Snyder wrote:
| I find the use of the terms 'up' and 'down' in this context to be
| very ambiguous. First of all, my mouse wheel doesn't move up or
| down at all. It moves 'away from me' or 'toward me'.
|
| When I move my mouse wheel away from me the text of a web page (for
| instance) moves 'down' on the screen which allows me to read things
| that are farther 'up' on the page.
|
| When on the desktop, moving the mouse wheel away from me moves to a
| lower numbered workspace. This is roughly analogous (at least to
| me) of allowing me to read things farther up (i.e. earlier) on the
| a web page.
|
| Is this how yours works?
|
Yes; when I started using xfce, this seems backwards to what I would
expect. Something I'll have to get used to. :-)
- --
http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=index&search=0x710B7CA0
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux)
iD8DBQE/0Xre0cAvx3ELfKARAj0jAKCqjvf2X7SIsQOlfuiVdKIoEtPbIACgkVJk
RhvS55Of+JzvwH+PpMnoXHU=
=kp+l
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
More information about the Xfce
mailing list