Bug#384749: evince: Scrolling the display by clicking and dragging does not work

[Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt]

retitle 384749 evince: documentation for scrolling by dragging the mouse confusing
forwarded 384749 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=396532
tags 384749 + upstram
thanks

Dylan Thurston <dthurston at barnard.edu> writes:
> According to the manual, you should be able to scroll by clicking and dragging:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> To display the page contents that are not currently displayed in the
> display area, use the following methods:
> ...
>  * Drag the display area in the opposite direction to the direction in
>    which you want to scroll. For example, to scroll down the page,
>    drag the display area upwards in the window.
> ...
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> This would be a nice feature, but it doesn't seem to work at all, in
> any documents that I tried.

It does work, but the documentation doesn't say that by dragging, using
the middle mouse button and moving the mouse is meant. This should work
for you (at least it's implement since 0.3.0 and never was a problem). I
have asked upstream to clarify the documentation for this.

Marc
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