Two motives of annoyance

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Mon Dec 29 09:58:55 CET 2025


On 12/19/25 04:11, Andrzej wrote:
> On 18/12/2025 18:12, renaud at olgiati.fr wrote:
>> Using the mouse cursor on the side-bar of a window (not ON the side
>> bar cursor) to move up or down in the display becomes unmanageable when
>> the window displays a content of several thousands lines. How will I
>> prevent this "acceleration" from raising my blood pressure ?
> 
> Do you perhaps mean the Gtk3 scrollbar behavior (the scrollbar slider 
> jumping to the mouse pointer position rather than advancing towards it 
> in single page steps)? If so, you can change it as described here:
> 
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/295988/how-to-fix-gtk3-scrollbar-behavior

There used to be a way to get little up and down arrows at the edges of 
the scrollbar to go up/down one at a time, but they went away in a 
version upgrade and I could never figure out how to get them back...

Rob


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