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by Alad » Wed Jun 25, 2014 1:32 pm
I've tried a bunch of terminals, and ole'
Xterm seems to do nicely.
However I can't scroll with the mouse wheel. PgUp, PgDown and arrow keys work normally (without Shift). ArchWiki says the mousewheel works, but also mentions Shift+PgUp, which as said is PgUp for me. The scrollbar, when enabled, doesn't seem to work either.
Version :
308-1
Xresources:
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XTerm*termName: xterm-256color
XTerm*locale: true
XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true
Xterm*saveLines: 4096
XTerm*reverseVideo: on
xterm*faceName: Liberation Mono:size=10
xterm*font: 7x13
xterm*borderWidth: 0
xterm*scrollTtyOutput: false
xterm*scrollTtyKeypress: true
Tried adding
these but didn't help, nor did an empty .Xresources. What am I missing?
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by Alad » Wed Jun 25, 2014 2:07 pm
Ok I may have misidentified the problem - I can scroll up, but not down with the mouse, e.g in nano or a man page. It works in urxvt, but I remember I had to enable a (perl) extension there.
-- Sorry, another edit -
my real reason from switching to xterm it that there's less keybindings that get in the way, for example Alt+s for "scrollback search" (conflicts with MC). (solved with removing
default from
URxvt*perl-ext-common) Also xterm has
"eight bit input".
Now I see that xterm loses part of the text when tiling windows, which urxvt didn't. :(
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by wuxmedia » Wed Jun 25, 2014 4:05 pm
weird, what WM are you using, would that even make a difference?
I just opened Xterm in i3 and it mouse scrolls just fine, for me.
Very sparse Xres, mostly for fonts and urxvt perl things.
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by bones » Wed Jun 25, 2014 4:18 pm
That is weird behavior, xterm scrolls fine for me in Slackware, regardless of DE or WM.
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by machinebacon » Wed Jun 25, 2014 4:38 pm
the problem is in PAGER. You probably use more or most, not less. less scrolls in both directions.
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by Alad » Wed Jun 25, 2014 5:06 pm
Well, I don't know what changed but now I can't scroll at all, again... (so I can't say if PAGER helps)
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by machinebacon » Wed Jun 25, 2014 5:18 pm
Okay I installed xterm and only have
XTerm*saveLines: 2500
in the .Xresources. Scrolling works. Do the menus pop up if you press Ctrl and the mouse buttons?
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by machinebacon » Wed Jun 25, 2014 5:22 pm
edit:
export PAGER=w3m
seems to work for manpages. nano does not scroll for me either.
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by Alad » Wed Jun 25, 2014 5:43 pm
Yes, the menus pop up - however any scrolling works only intermittently, both on my desktop with Arch and on my laptop with Summer; regardless if PAGER is set to w3m or less. Not sure why it doesn't work for me... but as I've solved
my keybindings issue above with urxvt, I'll stick to that for now.
Thanks for the help.
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by Alad » Tue Sep 02, 2014 9:15 am
I've finally found the solution for xterm in an
old bug report:
(turns out it's in the manual....)
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