[lug] Scrolling in xterm

[Jeff Howell]

Subba Rao wrote:
> 
> My xterm is version 4.0.1b(104). I have the scrollbar showing up on the left side
> of my window. I am not able to interactively use the mouse to scroll back in the window.
> A mouse click in the scroll bar will position the view in the scroll buffer. How can I
> use the mouse button to move interactively through the scroll buffer (as in gnome-terminal).
> 
> I have looked at the Xresourses but nothing was obvious about the mouse key bindings.
> Is this something more specific to the window manager or is isolated to the xresources file?
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> Subba Rao
> subb3 at attglobal.net
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> 
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Add this to your ~/.Xdefaults file:

XTerm.vt100.Scrollbar.translations: #override\n\
     <Btn5Down>: StartScroll(Forward)\n\
     <Btn4Down>: StartScroll(Backward)\n\

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 Jeff Howell
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