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patrickthebold

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Registered: 2008-12-15

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size of a vertical scroll in X

I know X uses buttons 4 and 5 for scrolling.  What determines how far an application will scroll each time, say button 4 is pressed?  Does each application get to determine this or is there a general setting in X that I am missing?

Mr.Elendig

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Re: size of a vertical scroll in X

generally done on an application level. Eg firefox has a setting to controll how many lines it shall scroll by.

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patrickthebold

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Registered: 2008-12-15

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Re: size of a vertical scroll in X

generally done on an application level. Eg firefox has a setting to controll how many lines it shall scroll by.

In firefox there is a "sysnumlines" setting, so it seems to read a number from some system wide setting.  I see that I can override this in firefox, but any ideas of how to set this system wide?  Maybe I'm being mislead by this option in firefox.