Mousewheel-scrolling through bash history in terminal?

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I’ve been searching the interwebs to no avail. Does anybody know how to implement this?

I’m using the terminal shipped with Manjaro xfce. Maybe there’s another terminal with this feature built-in?

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What are you trying to do, specifically?

history
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16707  systemctl --user restart mpd

Wheel scrolls for me in:

  1. Kitty
  2. xfce4-terminal
  3. urxvt
  4. xterm
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So you want to scroll the history with the scrollwheel instead of with the up and down key?

What terminal is shipped with xfce? (I use i3 so I have no idea)

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Basically I want to temporarily remap the mouse wheel to the ‘Up’ and ‘Down’ keys in order to be able to scroll through the command line, not the window.

I was able to do this by using xbindkeys, but I have to restart xsession(?) everytime to revert the changes (make xbindkeys use the blank config file).
EDIT: Eventually figured out how to use xbindkeys properly.
I followed this guide:


My .xbindkeysrc file looks like this (which is just a templet, since the keybindings might or might not work for your hardware. See the uncommented lines for my keybindings): 
# For the benefit of emacs users: -*- shell-script -*-
###########################
# xbindkeys configuration #
###########################
#
# Version: 1.8.7
#
# If you edit this file, do not forget to uncomment any lines
# that you change.
# The pound(#) symbol may be used anywhere for comments.
#
# To specify a key, you can use 'xbindkeys --key' or
# 'xbindkeys --multikey' and put one of the two lines in this file.
#
# The format of a command line is:
#    "command to start"
#       associated key
#
#
# A list of keys is in /usr/include/X11/keysym.h and in
# /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h
# The XK_ is not needed.
#
# List of modifier:
#   Release, Control, Shift, Mod1 (Alt), Mod2 (NumLock),
#   Mod3 (CapsLock), Mod4, Mod5 (Scroll).
#

# The release modifier is not a standard X modifier, but you can
# use it if you want to catch release events instead of press events

# By defaults, xbindkeys does not pay attention with the modifiers
# NumLock, CapsLock and ScrollLock.
# Uncomment the lines above if you want to pay attention to them.

#keystate_numlock = enable
#keystate_capslock = enable
#keystate_scrolllock= enable

# Examples of commands:

"xdotool key 'Up'"
       Mod5 + ISO_Level3_Shift + b:4

"xdotool key 'Down'"
       Mod5 + ISO_Level3_Shift + b:5

#"xbindkeys_show" 
#  control+shift + q

# set directly keycode (here control + f with my keyboard)
#"xterm"
#  c:41 + m:0x4

# specify a mouse button
#"xterm"
#  control + b:2

#"xterm -geom 50x20+20+20"
#   Shift+Mod2+alt + s
#
## set directly keycode (here control+alt+mod2 + f with my keyboard)
#"xterm"
#  alt + c:0x29 + m:4 + mod2
#
## Control+Shift+a  release event starts rxvt
#"rxvt"
#  release+control+shift + a
#
## Control + mouse button 2 release event starts rxvt
#"rxvt"
#  Control + b:2 + Release

##################################
# End of xbindkeys configuration #
##################################

This binds my Up and Down keys to my mousewheel while pressing Alt Gr.

Thanx for your reply

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Yep. It’s xfce4-terminal.

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Oke that uses VTE and I am sure it is a feature of it. Not sure how to set doh

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No, post what you did here…so other users can have a solution based on a forum search.

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