Colas Nahaboo personal site, with discussions about programming code, web and computing topics, surfing and SUPing, and various musings. Zola 1997-12-30T00:00:00+00:00 https://colas.nahaboo.net/tags/x11/atom.xml 1997-12-30T00:00:00+00:00 1997-12-30T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://colas.nahaboo.net/blog/colas-nahaboo-x-mouse-wheel-scroll-page/ <p>On December 30, 1997, I started this page to help developers manage the — then new — mouse wheel. My goal was to encourage a standard scrolling direction for the X Window System on Unix and Linux.</p> <p>It quickly became the most-viewed page on my personal site, and even across all INRIA-hosted websites at the time. However, as mouse wheels became mainstream, the page lost its relevance. I let it quietly disappear in 2018 when I upgraded my site.</p> <p>Seeing that this remains one of my most accessed URLs even in 2026, I decided to create this legacy page. It allows people to easily find the historical version on the Web Archive, specifically the <a rel="noopener external" target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150322074742/http://colas.nahaboo.net/mouse-wheel-scroll/">latest version of 2015-09-06</a>, from which is the screenshot:</p> <p>Enjoy!</p> <p><a href='https://web.archive.org/web/20150322074742/http://colas.nahaboo.net/mouse-wheel-scroll/' title='web archive version'><img src='CNXMWSP-Screenshot.png'></a></p>