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From: squire@benji.Colorado.EDU (Joel Squire)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Virtual windown managers
Date: 16 Jul 1995 17:07:28 -0600
Organization: University of Colorado-Boulder
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In-reply-to: Jon Jenkins's message of 16 Jul 1995 21:51:53 GMT
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Jon> Maybe its the way I ve got it set up but it seems to be page
Jon> orientated i.e. moving the ccursor to the edge jumps a whole
Jon> "page" and wont let you move out of the region of 4 pages in the
Jon> panner display, you have to click the mouse in the next "region"
Jon> to do this. I suppose it is time to RT*M !

There's an option you can set in your .fvwmrc file for the percentage
of the screen to scroll when you hit the edge. I can't remember it
offhand, check the fvwm manpage. Personally, I think page by page
scrolling is better. The method used to simulate the scrolling effect
is rather slow.



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		 Joel N. Squire <squire@colorado.edu>
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