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Old 07-09-2015, 08:32 AM   #1
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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?
 
Old 07-10-2015, 03:18 AM   #2
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try shift-click, ctrl-click
 
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Old 07-10-2015, 02:36 PM   #3
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Thanks for the hint. Shift/click and Control/click didn't work for me, but Alt/click did.
 
Old 09-06-2015, 09:36 AM   #4
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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 ...
 
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Page up and page down seem to vaguely do that on my system at least.
 
Old 09-06-2015, 03:41 PM   #6
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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.
 
Old 09-06-2015, 03:47 PM   #7
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Try changing your theme.

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


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