VeeDubb Posted December 14, 2003 Report Share Posted December 14, 2003 You may not even know about this if you've never used windows, but in the recent releases, you could click the scroll wheel (instead of scrolling it) and it would open a litle scroll icon on the screan where the cursor used to be, and you could scroll around the page by simply moving the mouse. This was realy convenient for large web pages or playing with large image files. ANyone know naything about doing this in linux.? Alternatively, what do you have that mouse function mapped to? Any suggestions for making it usefull? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdg Posted December 14, 2003 Report Share Posted December 14, 2003 I use that sometimes, it's very handy. I always thought it was a feature of linux. I can't tell you how to configure it, because I never did, although I can't recall if it worked for me in Mdk (using Arch right now). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 14, 2003 Report Share Posted December 14, 2003 As far as I know, galeon is the only app/browser that does it and I use it all the time. Which means it can be done. I do not understand why the rest of moz-family do not. GNOME!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregor Posted December 14, 2003 Report Share Posted December 14, 2003 you could click the scroll wheel (instead of scrolling it) and it would open a litle scroll icon on the screan where the cursor used to be, and you could scroll around the page by simply moving the mouse Why is that better than scrolling? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted December 14, 2003 Report Share Posted December 14, 2003 For mozilla, there is http://autoscroll.mozdev.org It doesn't work as great as it does in Windows or even in Galeon, but it works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tons Posted December 14, 2003 Report Share Posted December 14, 2003 Firebird can do this. Ton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted December 14, 2003 Report Share Posted December 14, 2003 Alternatively, what do you have that mouse function mapped to? Any suggestions for making it usefull? I highlight text with the left button, and press the wheel to paste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james Posted December 14, 2003 Report Share Posted December 14, 2003 Yup, as Tons had stated, Firebird can do it. (just found out after reading this thread :lol: ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted December 14, 2003 Report Share Posted December 14, 2003 I have the mouse gestures installed from http://optimoz.mozdev.org and I had to change the activation for the gestures from the middle button to the right button to keep them working correctly with this add-on. The one thing that bothers me is that I am used to highlighting a non-clickable URL with the left button and opening a new tab and clicking the middle button in the address bar to paste it there, but the autoscroll interferes with this. Just a small annoyance and now I have to Highlight -> Ctrl-C -> Ctrl-V to paste in the address bar. I still have middle-click-paste functionality in text-area fields other than the address bar, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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