30 Sep
2010
30 Sep
'10
8:38 a.m.
Liam Proven wrote:
On 30 September 2010 14:47, Jules Richardson
<jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote:
If I remember rightly, that was a feature of one of the window
managers, rather than the X server itself, but it was indeed a feature.
I want to say it was either twm or mwm, and I'm pretty sure it was
configurable.
And just to pick a nit, it's "X" or "The X Window System", but
never
ever "X Windows". :^)
Doc
Hmm, I think X windows had something similar at
one time - middle button to
drag the bar, left button to automatically go up and page and right button
to go down a page (if I remember right, it did jump by a screenful, rather
than smaller increments)
Interesting. I have played with a fairly primitive X setup, no modern
window managers and so on, and yes, it did some of that, but I'd not
registered the direction-switching bit, which (for my money) is the
core usability feature. ISTR going "ooh, it's like RISC OS", playing
to see if the features I liked were there, and being disappointed -
but I might have missed it.