sanctus Posted January 25, 2009 Report Share Posted January 25, 2009 Hi all, a search through the net did not give me any info. When I work from home and go per ssh on my linux-machine at work from my mac at home and open eg. an emacs windows of a code I want to modify, then the scrolling (both with 2 fingers option and the mouse) is too quick. The scroll speed in the system preferences does not have any influence it seems to me.Any ideas, the only thing I found on the net was that I am not the only one with this problem. Big thanks in advance for any suggestion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 well one solution is to use emacs like it was intended (i.e. emacs -nw) now, how do you have this set up, are you doing x11 forwarding, are you using it through a client, just saying that the scroll is out of control does not give me enough info to go by, sry sanctus :hihi: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanctus Posted January 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 never understood what a client is alexander :hihi: I ssh to my university computer and then I open my file via "e myfile.f90 &" where e is my alias for emacs (ie. in .bashrc I have alias e='emacs') Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 you are working in the terminal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanctus Posted January 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 no I use an emacs window, but I open it from terminal...as usual in a ssh thing (at least I guess it is usual:-)) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 actually i think you are doing x11 forwarding... because i cant see how you will get an emacs window without it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanctus Posted January 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 well I do not just type ssh [email protected], but I type with the option -X, ie ssh -X [email protected].From a linux OS this just starts X as usual, for Mac it makes X11 (mac version) available. The X11 from Mac is quite a bit worse than the linux one, what I hate most is that if you open different windows from the machine you ssh'd to ALT-TAB does not permit to browse through them since they all go under the name X11... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted January 28, 2009 Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 i have not yet found any settings for scrolling, but this may be of interest for focusing, etc, The macosxhints Forums - Apple's X11 and Tiger FAQs also some useful hits here:Configuring and Running X11 Applications on Mac OS X there is a link to a mailing list, if you cant solve it... why don't you email apple devs and ask them :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanctus Posted January 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 13- Scroll wheel weird behaviour. The mouse scroll wheel acts strangely in X11. If you scroll slowly, nothing happens. It acts like there is a speed threshold and only then will it respond, by scrolling a bunch of lines at once and often all the way to the top of the scroll buffer and there is no way to control how much it scrolls. This is a known issue by Apple. Unfortunately they cannot comment on when the fix will be available. So I just have to wait I guess (no use contacticting the devs), it was #13 on the first link you gave. Thanks anyway Alexander, so I know there is no quick fix I could make Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted January 28, 2009 Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 you will just have to use the arrow keys and page up/ page down :weather_snowing: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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