Emacs scroll bar under Cygwin

[Ken Brown]

On 5/3/2010 3:06 PM, Steven Collins wrote:
> Is there a way to change the scrollbar
> behavior in Emacs on Cygwin? On a Linux
> system the Emacs scroll bar works as one
> would expect in that you can select the
> scroll bar with the left mouse button and
> drag it up and down to move the position in
> the buffer that displays in the frame. This
> is also the case for the native Windows
> version of Emacs. Under Cygwin however the
> scrollbar behaves totally different, with a
> left click scrolling the buffer forward and
> a right click scrolling the buffer back.
> This difference is very annoying as I move
> between environments.

The scrollbar behavior depends on which X toolkit is used in building 
emacs.  I'm switching to GTK+ for the forthcoming release of emacs 23.2 
(due to be released in a week or so).  The scrollbars in that release 
will be more like what you expect.

Ken Brown
Cygwin's emacs maintainer

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