Where is X(7) man page, ques about but#2

Paul McFerrin pmcferrin@columbus.rr.com
Tue Oct 23 04:19:00 GMT 2007


I like your scrollbar.translations!  Works better than interchanging the 
functions of buttone #2 and #3.

Thanks.

Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Paul McFerrin wrote:
>
>> Under cygwin, I installed *ALL* of the xorg-x11-* packages but I am 
>> still missing the X(7) man page.  Where can I find one?
>>
>> With xterm, the middle mouse button is essentailly a soft-scroll in 
>> that the scroll bars moves with the mouse pointer.  I would like to 
>> make it mouse button 3 instead but only in xterm.  How can I do that 
>> in the ..Xdefaults file.
>
> There is a related example in the manpage (for xterm), e.g.,
>
> http://invisible-island.net/xterm/manpage/xterm.html
>
> Some people prefer using the left pointer button for dragging the 
> scrollbar thumb. That can be setup by altering the translations 
> resource, e.g.,
> *VT100.scrollbar.translations:#override \n\
>      <Btn5Down>:StartScroll(Forward) \n\
>      <Btn1Down>:StartScroll(Continuous) MoveThumb() NotifyThumb() \n\
>      <Btn4Down>:StartScroll(Backward) \n\
>      <Btn1Motion>:MoveThumb() NotifyThumb() \n\
>      <BtnUp>:  NotifyScroll(Proportional) EndScroll()
>
>

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