I'm using emacs and other text applications compiled with (among other things) libXaw3d. This library ignores the right button, and on the left or middle button, it jumps to that relative position (over the entire file), completely ignoring the line position.
The older libXaw is much nicer. Using that library, clicking in the scroll bar area with the left mouse button scrolls enough to put that line of text at the top of the window, and the right mouse button scrolls enough in reverse to put the top line of the window at the indicated position. The middle button grabs the scrollbar and moves it around. This is intuitive and very easy and effective to use. The scroll bars on these "new" applications thus seem to be a significant functional regression from the scroll bars produced by libXaw. I've been able to force-load libXaw to work around the problem, and (at least so far) there seems to be little harm in doing this, but I'd think there has to be a better way. Is there some configuration tweaking possible with this library? Or maybe it's just a bug? -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
