LyX scroll repeat much too fast

[Laurence Tyler]

Hi,

When I click in the scroll bar trough of an application window, e.g. to scroll down a long document, I expect it to jump one windowful straight away, then jump repeatedly after a short pause, in the same way that keyboard keys repeat.

LyX does this, but it does it much, much too fast on my system. The delay before the repeating starts is typically shorter than my single mouse click (and I'm a fast mouse clicker..), and the rate of repeat scrolling is mental! Effectively this means that I cannot use the scrollbar trough to page through my documents as I am used to.

The same problem seems to apply to the counter widgets used in (for example) the preferences dialogs. If I click on an arrow button to increment, say, the screen DPI setting, it zooms up madly and I have great difficulty in setting it to the value I really want.

I don't know if this is really a LyX problem or something to do with Xforms, but I have several other Xforms based applications on my system that do not show this problem, i.e. scrollbars and counters are well-behaved.

I am currently running:

LyX 1.2.1
XForms 0.89
RedHat Linux 7.3
Glibc 2.2.5

I tried rebuilding with the OpenSource version of XForms, but the behaviour seemed to be identical. Any ideas?

I couldn't find this problem on the bug reporting system, so I'm posting it here. Please could someone file a proper bug report if it really is a problem and not just me?

Cheers,
Laurence Tyler.

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