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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/12/2025 18:12, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:renaud@olgiati.fr">renaud@olgiati.fr</a>
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">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 ?</pre>
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<p>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:</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/295988/how-to-fix-gtk3-scrollbar-behavior">https://askubuntu.com/questions/295988/how-to-fix-gtk3-scrollbar-behavior</a></p>
<pre><code>$ cat ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
[Settings]
gtk-primary-button-warps-slider = false
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<p>Apologies if you were asking about something else.</p>
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">With grateful thanks in advance, and best Xmas and New Year wishes from
an old bugger in Paraguay (who started computing with punch cards on an
IBM 1620 fifty years ago)</pre>
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<p>Welcome and best wishes to you too.</p>
<p>Andrzej</p>
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