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I'm running firefox, but I'm having trouble with keyboard vertical scrolling.
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2006 mozilla.org
When I type up/down arrow and page-up/down, the *cursor* moves, but not necessarily the window contents. That is, up/down arrow moves the text cursor one line up or down rather than, as I'd like, the contents up or down by one line. Worse, it's according to some document layout magic rather than according to the way I view the contents. Page-up/down is the same. The result is that page-down twice followed by page-up has the result that the page-up just moves the cursor to the top of the window: I'd need a second page-up to move the contents up.
An example of this is http://slashdot.org/ :
Page-up/down do not work at all until I click in the window
contents.
Then they work, but page-down + page-up does not leave me at the
top of the contents, but one page down.
A worse example is http://heart75011.blogspot.com/ :
Page-down and down-arrow move from the title to the bottom without passing by the intermediate contents. At the bottom of the contents, I can not page back up.
It occurred to me that this could be related to vi vs emacs key bindings. After googling, I see that firefox should respect gnome settings, but gnome-control-center --> keyboard-shortcuts only has desktop and sound, no text option.
I tried fiddling with the gtk theme, no luck.
jeff@astra:~ $ ls -lt .gtk* -rw-r--r-- 1 jeff jeff 30 2006年08月03日 10:19 .gtkrc.mine -rw-r--r-- 1 jeff jeff 86 2005年07月23日 12:22 .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 -rw-r--r-- 1 jeff jeff 1 2004年11月20日 18:35 .gtkrc.mine~ -rw-r--r-- 1 jeff jeff 26 2004年11月20日 10:29 .gtkrc-2.0.mine -rw-r--r-- 1 jeff jeff 145 2004年11月20日 10:26 .gtkrc jeff@astra:~ $ cat .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 # Autowritten by gnome-settings-daemon. Do not edit
include "/home/jeff/.gtkrc.mine" jeff@astra:~ $ cat .gtkrc # -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN DO NOT EDIT include "/usr/share/themes/Default/gtk/gtkrc"
include "~/.gtkrc.mine"
# -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN DO NOT EDIT
jeff@astra:~ $ cat .gtkrc.mine
gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs" jeff@astra:~ $
I did try creating a new (so vanilla) account and running a fresh and so unconfigured firefox there. Same behavior.
Any ideas what is happening?
That sounds very weird, and vaguely familiar... Have you played around with the Accessibility and Browsing settings?
Edit >> Preferences Advanced Tab, General Accessibility Allow text to be selected with the keyboard Begin finding when you begin typing Browsing Use autoscrolling Use smooth scrolling