Re:Evolution of the Scrollbar
by bangonkeyboard on Saturday November 02, 2019 @03:10PM
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Clicking in the gutter is inaccurate. On Macs, it advances by page, and in later versions animates; only option-clicking jumps the thumb to that position.
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OMG! TIL about option-clicking the scrollbar. And here I thought I'd option-clicked everything by now...
Re:Evolution of the Scrollbar
by bbernoulli on Saturday November 02, 2019 @10:05PM
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Windows also advances by page when clicking in the gutter, BUT based on the handle size it seems like the example scrollbars are not demoing a large enough scroll area to show both behaviors.
There is a setting to change this behavior. It’s in System Preferences->General->“Jump to the spot that’s clicked”
Re:Evolution of the Scrollbar
by LeoPanthera on Saturday November 02, 2019 @03:58PM
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You can change that behavior in System Preferences > General.
Related: on Macs, holding the Shift key makes the scroll wheel (and two-finger touchpad scrolling) scroll horizontally instead of vertically.
X on Linux (Xfce) it advances by page, by shift-clicking in the gutter!
Where do I reverse this? So that it advances by page when clicking in the gutter, and it jumps to that position when shift-clicking in the gutter.
Likewise I remember Windows also jumping by a page. I remember being confused when I first experienced jumping to that position upon switching to Ubuntu.