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Subject: kern/172386: Request: syscons(4) support for mouse scroll wheel (a
	la xterm)
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>Number:         172386
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Request: syscons(4) support for mouse scroll wheel (a la xterm)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Oct 06 09:50:03 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ronald F. Guilmette
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE amd64
>Organization:
entr0py
>Environment:

System: FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE amd64

>Description:

The man page for syscons(4) makes clear that the console driver already has
the capability to ``scroll'' the text of the currently selected virtual
console forward and backwards.  It does this via a combination of the
ScrollLock key and then the PageUp/PageDown or Up/Down arrow keys.

It would be Nice if the console driver could also be induced to perform
line-by-line up/down scrolling via the scroll wheel on a wheeled mouse,
as in an xterm window under X.

>How-To-Repeat:

N/A

>Fix:

Sorry, I do not have patches to propose at this time.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: