Bug#265133: xterm: horizontal scroll wheel causes beeps
Package: xterm
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6
Severity: wishlist
If you accidentally use a horizontal scroll wheel (buttons 6 and 7) in an
xterm, it beeps. I am using the EmulateWheel feature of XFree86 to simulate
both the vertical and horizontal wheel, and when "scrolling" vertically, I
inevitably cause a few horizontal wheel events. So this beep is rather
bothersome.
I tried to work around this by adding empty translations for buttons 6 and
7, but as far as I can tell, Xt only supports 5 buttons, so there is no hope
of that. I presume that has something to do with the beeps, but I did not
dig far enough to discover exactly what causes them. If it is simply the
case that every "bogus" event causes a beep, maybe there can be an option to
disable that.
Andrew
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libexpat1 1.95.6-8 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libfontconfig1 2.2.3-1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Session Management
ii libxaw7 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Athena widget set library
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxpm4 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X pixmap library
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m
ii xlibs-data 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client data
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