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Scrolling through manual pages

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In guake package provided by some other distros, user can scroll through manual pages by using the mouse wheel, but that's not true in Ubuntu.

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Ubfan (ubfan1) said : 		#1

In Ubuntu 12.04, I type man bash, and the scroll wheel works fine for me. What distro are you running?

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Tiago (toazz) said : 		#2

Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin

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Tiago (toazz) said : 		#3

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
Package: guake 0.4.2-7
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:pt_PT:en
 LC_TIME=pt_BR.UTF-8
 LC_MONETARY=pt_BR.UTF-8
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LC_ADDRESS=pt_BR.UTF-8
 LC_TELEPHONE=pt_BR.UTF-8
 LANG=pt_BR.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LC_NAME=pt_BR.UTF-8
 LC_MEASUREMENT=pt_BR.UTF-8
 LC_IDENTIFICATION=pt_BR.UTF-8
 LC_NUMERIC=pt_BR.UTF-8
 LC_PAPER=pt_BR.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
SourcePackage: guake
Tags: precise
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Tiago (toazz) said : 		#4

I noticed that, differently from other terminal emulators, guake doesn't spawn gnome-pty-helper. Could it have something to do with the issue?

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Tiago (toazz) said : 		#5

Any other information needed?

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Ubfan (ubfan1) said : 		#6

The man scrolling uses the "less" program, so try running less directly in a guake terminal:
less file.txt
If that does not scroll, then that's why man does not scroll.
Check for any configuration settings in guake that might affect this feature.

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Tiago (toazz) said : 		#7

Yeah, less doesn't scroll as well. I've also created an auxiliary user accont, in order to use guake and everything else with default config, and the issue is still there. Seems that there's a patch for fixing it:

http://guake.org/attachment/ticket/237/0001-237-fix-mouse-scrolling-in-less-on-Ubuntu.patch