Jessie: How to scroll one screen/page at a time
 

When I open a folder in Jessie and try to scroll by clicking in the scroll bar, the folder scrolls to the position where I clicked, i.e. if I click halfway don the scroll bar in a folder containing 500 files, it'll scroll to somewhere around the 250th item in the folder.

Is there a way to change this behaviour so that it will scroll one page/screen at a time, irrespective of where I click in the scroll bar?

try shift-click, ctrl-click

Thanks for the hint. Shift/click and Control/click didn't work for me, but Alt/click did.

No, I was wrong, oh so wrong. Alt/click does not work. I can only assume that I had a brain freeze/fart when I posted the above ...

Page up and page down seem to vaguely do that on my system at least.

Clicking in the scrollbar works for me. But I use Xfce, not Gnome. I have no idea how Gnome does things, I abandoned it when Gnome3 hit me in the face. What you're describing has nothing to do with Jessie, just the desktop environment you're using.

Try changing your theme.

Some have "steppers" on the scroll bar and I think the behaviour is different as well.