How to change scrolling in Ubuntu

[Bret Busby]

On 01/08/2015, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 31 July 2015 at 21:31, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> In Ubuntu, in some applications, the standrad scrolling method, is
>> applicable, along the side or the bottom of the scroolable area, is a
>> bar thing, that can be drawn, with the pointing device, to the
>> position that the user wants, and, in that, the drawing is
>> continuously variable.
>>
>> Howebver, in Ubuntu, the system scrolling method, involves not a
>> visble scrolling thing to be drawn with the pointing device, to where
>> the user wants, but is a discrete thing, that, when the user positions
>> the cursor over an appropriate edge of the "scrollable" area, a thing
>> with two arrow heads, is displayed, for the user to click on one of
>> the arrow heads, so the "scrollable" area will be moved, in discrete
>> distances of a screen at a time, and, it is not continuously variable,
>> but, being discrete, usually travels too far.
>
> You can drag the "thing with two arrow heads" in exactly the same way
> you drag the conventional scroll bar, in addition you can page by
> clicking the arrows.
>
> Colin

Thank you - I had not realised (and it had not occured to me) that the
thing with two heads, could be dragged.


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Bret Busby
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