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Mouse panning (middle-button scrolling)

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#1,701 opened on Jun 28, 2019

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Description

Summary of the new feature/enhancement

Introduce scrolling with middle mouse button, common to browsers/text editors and also available in conhost.

Currently middle mouse button is not used (right?) but there are requests to use it to paste text, so there needs to be a settings for that.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

PR #1523 introduces mechanism to implement scrolling, cursor image has to be replaced with appropriate images.

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Research direction
Review PR #1523 for scrolling mechanism, then implement middle mouse button handling and update cursor images.
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3
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Clear
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40