Re: How do I increase the scroll-repeat delay?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Dean Edmonds <deane gooroos com> writes:

> When I click in the trough of a scrollbar, I get an initial jump of the
> thumb, then a brief pause, then the thumb starts to scroll repeatedly.
> 
> The problem for me is that that pause is too short and, unless I
> concentrate on my click, which I shouldn't have to do, I always end up with
> multiple pagings per mouse click. This makes the GTK scrollbars all but
> unusable for me.
> 
> Is there a way, as a use, to configure a longer delay before the
> scroll-repeat kicks in?

Edit the #defines at the top of gtk/gtkrange.c and recompile would
be about your only option.

There will be a mechanism for configuring this sort of thing in GTK+-2.0 -
I just added a note to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3958
to remind us of this particular one.

Regards,
                                        Owen