Re: --without-toolkit-scroll-bars at runtime?

[Jan D.]

> On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:28:57 -0500, Stefan Monnier
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Similarly, it would be good to provide a Gtk "theme" that gives 
> > Xaw-like
> > behavior (or some other: there used to be a variety of useful 
> > behaviors in
> > various scrollbars, such as the one used in the Smalltalk machine, 
> > ...).
> > But I doubt it can currently be done with just a theme.
>
> Just having the more sensible mouse-click bindings (mouse-1 = forward
> by N% anywhere in the scrollbar, mouse-2 = opposite) would be a
> tremendous improvement.  Does GTK filter-out all the useful
> information before handing scroll clicks to Emacs?

Yes, the behaviour on different buttons is hard coded, no configuration 
possible.  A possible approach is to intercept mouse events and handle 
them in Emacs rather than passing them to the scroll bar.  This may be 
desirable for other reasons also (overscrolling).

        Jan D.