On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:49:37 +0000, Jim Price wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm using Gnome terminal in Mythbuntu 12.04 and mouse-wheel scrolling
> works fine for scrolling back and forward through terminal history, but
> whenever I view a manpage, the mouse wheel no longer scrolls. I've
> Googled, and discovered that man uses less to display the pages, but all
> the things I've tried from Googling have failed to solve the issue. I've
> tried setting options using the LESS environment variable, lesskey, and
> played with the scrolling settings in Gnome terminal, but all to no
> avail. The same issue happens in XFCE terminal, so I think it might be
> something to do with less rather than the terminal used. Can anyone
> suggest what might be happening here or does anyone know of a solution?
Hi,
if you *have* to display the man page in a terminal, I can't help; but if
you don't mind displaying the results in a browser, have a look at
man -H[<browser>] or man --html[=<browser>]
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