run-on scrolling

Sergio sergiocmailbox-xfce at yahoo.com.br
Sat Jun 23 18:03:19 CEST 2012



--- Em sáb, 23/6/12, Ray Andrews <rayandrews at eastlink.ca> escreveu:

> De: Ray Andrews <rayandrews at eastlink.ca>
> Assunto: Re: run-on scrolling
> Para: "Xfce general discussion list" <xfce at xfce.org>
> Data: Sábado, 23 de Junho de 2012, 12:29
> Gentlemen,
> 
> In Thunar, if I'm looking at a very long listing and I'm
> using Page Down/Up to scroll through it, if I hold the key
> down and then release it, it does not stop scrolling. 
> It seems as if the KB buffer gets loaded with PgDn's and
> that these must be exhausted before any new keystrokes will
> be read.  This is very annoying since even if I take my
> finger off the key when I get to where I want to be, it
> keeps on scrolling  past, and there's nothing I can do
> to stop it.  Note that the Up/Down arrow keys do *not*
> do this, they stop scrolling the instant I take my finger
> off the key.  Is there any way I can get Pg Up/Dn to
> behave the same way?  I've adapted to this by pecking
> the Pg Up/Dn key when I want fast scrolling, but I'd sure
> like it if I didn't have to do that and it would just stop
> scrolling when I take my finger off.
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Hi, Ray.
That sounds as the normal behaviour to me. It just can't draw the screen as fast as PgDown scrolls. That happens likewise in the terminal.


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