How to scroll the screen using the middle click?

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On Windows, most programs with large, scrollable text containers (e.g. all browsers, most word processors and IDEs) let you press the middle mouse button and then move the mouse to scroll. This scrolling is smooth and allows you to scroll very quickly using just the mouse.

When I've used Linux on laptops, two-finger scrolling performs roughly the same function; it's easy to scroll down a page quickly (much more quickly than one can by scrolling a mouse wheel) but the scrolling remains smooth enough to allow precise positioning.

I am unsure how to achieve the same thing when running Linux on a Desktop with a mouse. As far as I can tell after a whole bunch of Googling, there are neither application-specific settings to swap to Windows-style middle mouse button behaviour, nor any system-wide settings to achieve the same effect.

Just to make this concrete, let's say - if it's relevant - that I'm asking in the context of Firefox, Google Chrome, Gedit and Eclipse on a recent version of either Mint (what I use at home) or Ubuntu (what I use at work). I suspect this is a fairly distro-agnostic and application-agnostic question, though.

As far as I can tell, my options for scrolling are:

Scroll with the mousewheel - slow!

Use the PgUp / PgDn keys - jumps a huge distance at a time so can't be used for precise positioning, and is less comfortable than using the mouse

Drag the scroll bar at the right hand side of the screen up and down like I used to do on old Windows PCs with two-button mice. This is what I do in practice, but it's just plain less comfortable than Windows-style middle-mouse scrolling; on a huge widescreen, it takes me most of a second just to move the cursor over from the middle of the screen to the scrollbar, and most of a second to move it back again, and I have to take my eyes off the content I'm actually scrolling to do this.

None of these satisfy me! This UI issue is the single thing that poisons my enjoyment of Linux on desktops and almost makes me wish I was using a laptop touchpad instead of a mouse. It irritates me enough that I've concluded that either I'm missing some basic Linux UI feature that solves this problem, or I'm just an oversensitive freak and it doesn't even bother anyone else - but I'm not sure which.

So my questions are:

Does Windows-style middle mouse button scrolling exist anywhere in the Linux world, or is it really purely a Windows thing? In particular, do any Linux web browsers let you use Windows-style scrolling?

Are there any mechanisms for scrolling pages that exist in Linux but not in Windows, especially ones that perform the role I've described?

Any other solutions that I'm missing?

edited Dec 14 '14 at 15:50

Aditya

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asked Dec 19 '12 at 16:01

Mark Amery

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You call "holding down middle mouse and moving the mouse" "Windows-style" scrolling but I was never aware that there was anything Windows-specific about it. I actually had no idea what you meant by "Windows-style" before I read through your question carefully. You may want to edit your question to use a more enlightening term as I doubt many other people on this site will know what you mean. As far as I can remember that was fairly standard behavior even on Linux - it's probably just a matter of mouse configuration and whether holding down the mouse wheel registers as middle mouse button.
– jw013
Dec 19 '12 at 16:04

@jw013 I've never seen a Linux install where this behavior existed; middle mouse button always seems to just be Paste, and Googling suggests there's no way to turn off the middle-mouse paste behavior (which implies to me no way to turn on middle-mouse scroll behavior - but I'm not sure, which is why I asked here).
– Mark Amery
Dec 19 '12 at 16:07

@jw013 BTW, if you can suggest a more enlightening term I'll use it, but as far as I know this behavior has no proper/official name and I can't think of a succinct and clear name to give it - which is why I described it carefully in my first paragraph instead.
– Mark Amery
Dec 19 '12 at 16:11

I actually switched to a scroll-wheel-less trackball mouse a while ago so all of this is recollection. I'd probably call it "middle mouse scrolling". If I remember correctly, paste only triggered on a simple click, scrolling happened if you held the button down and moved the mouse around. I might have had some settings in my xorg.conf that helped (I tend to copy over my old xorg.conf customizations to new installs so I don't remember exactly). If you are using GNOME try poking around in your mouse preferences and see if there's anything there.
– jw013
Dec 19 '12 at 16:32

@MarkAmery Just in case you didn't already find this, see Gilles' answer to a similar question. The method described by Gilles will enable scroll wheel emulation across all X.Org applications, not just Firefox.
– Arkanon
May 31 '15 at 9:02

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As far as I can tell, my options for scrolling are:

Scroll with the mousewheel - slow!

Use the PgUp / PgDn keys - jumps a huge distance at a time so can't be used for precise positioning, and is less comfortable than using the mouse

Drag the scroll bar at the right hand side of the screen up and down like I used to do on old Windows PCs with two-button mice. This is what I do in practice, but it's just plain less comfortable than Windows-style middle-mouse scrolling; on a huge widescreen, it takes me most of a second just to move the cursor over from the middle of the screen to the scrollbar, and most of a second to move it back again, and I have to take my eyes off the content I'm actually scrolling to do this.

So my questions are:

Does Windows-style middle mouse button scrolling exist anywhere in the Linux world, or is it really purely a Windows thing? In particular, do any Linux web browsers let you use Windows-style scrolling?

Are there any mechanisms for scrolling pages that exist in Linux but not in Windows, especially ones that perform the role I've described?

Any other solutions that I'm missing?

edited Dec 14 '14 at 15:50

Aditya

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asked Dec 19 '12 at 16:01

Mark Amery

79731121

You call "holding down middle mouse and moving the mouse" "Windows-style" scrolling but I was never aware that there was anything Windows-specific about it. I actually had no idea what you meant by "Windows-style" before I read through your question carefully. You may want to edit your question to use a more enlightening term as I doubt many other people on this site will know what you mean. As far as I can remember that was fairly standard behavior even on Linux - it's probably just a matter of mouse configuration and whether holding down the mouse wheel registers as middle mouse button.
– jw013
Dec 19 '12 at 16:04

@jw013 I've never seen a Linux install where this behavior existed; middle mouse button always seems to just be Paste, and Googling suggests there's no way to turn off the middle-mouse paste behavior (which implies to me no way to turn on middle-mouse scroll behavior - but I'm not sure, which is why I asked here).
– Mark Amery
Dec 19 '12 at 16:07

@jw013 BTW, if you can suggest a more enlightening term I'll use it, but as far as I know this behavior has no proper/official name and I can't think of a succinct and clear name to give it - which is why I described it carefully in my first paragraph instead.
– Mark Amery
Dec 19 '12 at 16:11

I actually switched to a scroll-wheel-less trackball mouse a while ago so all of this is recollection. I'd probably call it "middle mouse scrolling". If I remember correctly, paste only triggered on a simple click, scrolling happened if you held the button down and moved the mouse around. I might have had some settings in my xorg.conf that helped (I tend to copy over my old xorg.conf customizations to new installs so I don't remember exactly). If you are using GNOME try poking around in your mouse preferences and see if there's anything there.
– jw013
Dec 19 '12 at 16:32

@MarkAmery Just in case you didn't already find this, see Gilles' answer to a similar question. The method described by Gilles will enable scroll wheel emulation across all X.Org applications, not just Firefox.
– Arkanon
May 31 '15 at 9:02

add a comment |

up vote
23
down vote

favorite

As far as I can tell, my options for scrolling are:

Scroll with the mousewheel - slow!

Use the PgUp / PgDn keys - jumps a huge distance at a time so can't be used for precise positioning, and is less comfortable than using the mouse

Drag the scroll bar at the right hand side of the screen up and down like I used to do on old Windows PCs with two-button mice. This is what I do in practice, but it's just plain less comfortable than Windows-style middle-mouse scrolling; on a huge widescreen, it takes me most of a second just to move the cursor over from the middle of the screen to the scrollbar, and most of a second to move it back again, and I have to take my eyes off the content I'm actually scrolling to do this.

So my questions are:

Does Windows-style middle mouse button scrolling exist anywhere in the Linux world, or is it really purely a Windows thing? In particular, do any Linux web browsers let you use Windows-style scrolling?

Are there any mechanisms for scrolling pages that exist in Linux but not in Windows, especially ones that perform the role I've described?

Any other solutions that I'm missing?

edited Dec 14 '14 at 15:50

Aditya

456718

asked Dec 19 '12 at 16:01

Mark Amery

79731121

As far as I can tell, my options for scrolling are:

Scroll with the mousewheel - slow!

Use the PgUp / PgDn keys - jumps a huge distance at a time so can't be used for precise positioning, and is less comfortable than using the mouse

Drag the scroll bar at the right hand side of the screen up and down like I used to do on old Windows PCs with two-button mice. This is what I do in practice, but it's just plain less comfortable than Windows-style middle-mouse scrolling; on a huge widescreen, it takes me most of a second just to move the cursor over from the middle of the screen to the scrollbar, and most of a second to move it back again, and I have to take my eyes off the content I'm actually scrolling to do this.

So my questions are:

Does Windows-style middle mouse button scrolling exist anywhere in the Linux world, or is it really purely a Windows thing? In particular, do any Linux web browsers let you use Windows-style scrolling?

Are there any mechanisms for scrolling pages that exist in Linux but not in Windows, especially ones that perform the role I've described?

Any other solutions that I'm missing?

mouse scrolling

edited Dec 14 '14 at 15:50

Aditya

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asked Dec 19 '12 at 16:01

Mark Amery

79731121

edited Dec 14 '14 at 15:50

Aditya

456718

asked Dec 19 '12 at 16:01

Mark Amery

79731121

edited Dec 14 '14 at 15:50

Aditya

456718

edited Dec 14 '14 at 15:50

Aditya

456718

edited Dec 14 '14 at 15:50

Aditya

456718

asked Dec 19 '12 at 16:01

Mark Amery

79731121

asked Dec 19 '12 at 16:01

Mark Amery

79731121

asked Dec 19 '12 at 16:01

Mark Amery

79731121

You call "holding down middle mouse and moving the mouse" "Windows-style" scrolling but I was never aware that there was anything Windows-specific about it. I actually had no idea what you meant by "Windows-style" before I read through your question carefully. You may want to edit your question to use a more enlightening term as I doubt many other people on this site will know what you mean. As far as I can remember that was fairly standard behavior even on Linux - it's probably just a matter of mouse configuration and whether holding down the mouse wheel registers as middle mouse button.
– jw013
Dec 19 '12 at 16:04

@jw013 I've never seen a Linux install where this behavior existed; middle mouse button always seems to just be Paste, and Googling suggests there's no way to turn off the middle-mouse paste behavior (which implies to me no way to turn on middle-mouse scroll behavior - but I'm not sure, which is why I asked here).
– Mark Amery
Dec 19 '12 at 16:07

@jw013 BTW, if you can suggest a more enlightening term I'll use it, but as far as I know this behavior has no proper/official name and I can't think of a succinct and clear name to give it - which is why I described it carefully in my first paragraph instead.
– Mark Amery
Dec 19 '12 at 16:11

I actually switched to a scroll-wheel-less trackball mouse a while ago so all of this is recollection. I'd probably call it "middle mouse scrolling". If I remember correctly, paste only triggered on a simple click, scrolling happened if you held the button down and moved the mouse around. I might have had some settings in my xorg.conf that helped (I tend to copy over my old xorg.conf customizations to new installs so I don't remember exactly). If you are using GNOME try poking around in your mouse preferences and see if there's anything there.
– jw013
Dec 19 '12 at 16:32

@MarkAmery Just in case you didn't already find this, see Gilles' answer to a similar question. The method described by Gilles will enable scroll wheel emulation across all X.Org applications, not just Firefox.
– Arkanon
May 31 '15 at 9:02

add a comment |

You call "holding down middle mouse and moving the mouse" "Windows-style" scrolling but I was never aware that there was anything Windows-specific about it. I actually had no idea what you meant by "Windows-style" before I read through your question carefully. You may want to edit your question to use a more enlightening term as I doubt many other people on this site will know what you mean. As far as I can remember that was fairly standard behavior even on Linux - it's probably just a matter of mouse configuration and whether holding down the mouse wheel registers as middle mouse button.
– jw013
Dec 19 '12 at 16:04

@jw013 I've never seen a Linux install where this behavior existed; middle mouse button always seems to just be Paste, and Googling suggests there's no way to turn off the middle-mouse paste behavior (which implies to me no way to turn on middle-mouse scroll behavior - but I'm not sure, which is why I asked here).
– Mark Amery
Dec 19 '12 at 16:07

@jw013 BTW, if you can suggest a more enlightening term I'll use it, but as far as I know this behavior has no proper/official name and I can't think of a succinct and clear name to give it - which is why I described it carefully in my first paragraph instead.
– Mark Amery
Dec 19 '12 at 16:11

I actually switched to a scroll-wheel-less trackball mouse a while ago so all of this is recollection. I'd probably call it "middle mouse scrolling". If I remember correctly, paste only triggered on a simple click, scrolling happened if you held the button down and moved the mouse around. I might have had some settings in my xorg.conf that helped (I tend to copy over my old xorg.conf customizations to new installs so I don't remember exactly). If you are using GNOME try poking around in your mouse preferences and see if there's anything there.
– jw013
Dec 19 '12 at 16:32

@MarkAmery Just in case you didn't already find this, see Gilles' answer to a similar question. The method described by Gilles will enable scroll wheel emulation across all X.Org applications, not just Firefox.
– Arkanon
May 31 '15 at 9:02

You call "holding down middle mouse and moving the mouse" "Windows-style" scrolling but I was never aware that there was anything Windows-specific about it. I actually had no idea what you meant by "Windows-style" before I read through your question carefully. You may want to edit your question to use a more enlightening term as I doubt many other people on this site will know what you mean. As far as I can remember that was fairly standard behavior even on Linux - it's probably just a matter of mouse configuration and whether holding down the mouse wheel registers as middle mouse button.
– jw013
Dec 19 '12 at 16:04

@jw013 I've never seen a Linux install where this behavior existed; middle mouse button always seems to just be Paste, and Googling suggests there's no way to turn off the middle-mouse paste behavior (which implies to me no way to turn on middle-mouse scroll behavior - but I'm not sure, which is why I asked here).
– Mark Amery
Dec 19 '12 at 16:07

@jw013 BTW, if you can suggest a more enlightening term I'll use it, but as far as I know this behavior has no proper/official name and I can't think of a succinct and clear name to give it - which is why I described it carefully in my first paragraph instead.
– Mark Amery
Dec 19 '12 at 16:11

I actually switched to a scroll-wheel-less trackball mouse a while ago so all of this is recollection. I'd probably call it "middle mouse scrolling". If I remember correctly, paste only triggered on a simple click, scrolling happened if you held the button down and moved the mouse around. I might have had some settings in my xorg.conf that helped (I tend to copy over my old xorg.conf customizations to new installs so I don't remember exactly). If you are using GNOME try poking around in your mouse preferences and see if there's anything there.
– jw013
Dec 19 '12 at 16:32

@MarkAmery Just in case you didn't already find this, see Gilles' answer to a similar question. The method described by Gilles will enable scroll wheel emulation across all X.Org applications, not just Firefox.
– Arkanon
May 31 '15 at 9:02

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The feature you are talking about is called Auto-Scrolling. It lets you press & hold the middle mouse button and move your mouse to scroll smoothly. In Linux, the default behavior for this action (pressing middle mouse button) is generally used for pasting text.

However, there is a preference setting in Firefox and an extension available for Chrome/Chromium which would let you use middle mouse button for scrolling and activate this feature.

Firefox

Open your Preferences Dialog: Edit Menu >> Preferences.

Navigate to Advanced Tab and then General Tab.

Under Browsing, you would find the option called Use autoscrolling. Put a check mark beside this to activate this functionality in Firefox.

Chrome/Chromium

For Chrome/Chromium we can use an Extension called AutoScroll (from kaescripts.blogspot.com).

Go to this Link on Chrome Web Store (obviously using Chrome/Chromium).

Press on the button labeled ADD TO CHROME to install this extension.

Click on Add in the Confirmation Dialog Box.

Other Applications

As far as other applications are concerned, I haven't yet found a solution for them. Anyways, its the tall webpages which creates most of the problem for which both Firefox and Chrome/Chromium have a solution.

Happy Scrolling!

answered Feb 4 '13 at 16:27

Aditya

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Awesome. I will try out the extensions at work tomorrow and then accept this answer. I'm fairly convinced by now that for most other applications there simply isn't a solution.
– Mark Amery
Feb 4 '13 at 18:32

@MarkAmery: Yup... For me this is the most annoying thing in Linux... It still annoys me in one of my folders which contains lots and lots of files... Otherwise, as I said, this feature is mostly useful for webpages, for which we have a solution at hand... :)
– Aditya
Feb 4 '13 at 18:36

2

It works! Yay! :)
– Mark Amery
Feb 5 '13 at 9:41

Funny it does not work on some websites like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/apps?hl=en itself.
– dashesy
Feb 27 '16 at 19:22

@dashesy Autoscrolling doesn't work on some websites because they hijack the scrolling behavior of the browser through JavaScript. You would find that autoscrolling doesn't work on those websites when using Windows as well where autoscrolling is the Operating System feature.
– Aditya
May 13 '16 at 15:48

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This will work with all your applications without the need of installing anything.

Get your input deviceID. In my case (Logitech M315/M235) was 11.

xinput list

If you want list available properties with xinput list-props <deviceID>. If you are using libinput (the future/present) almost all properties will start with libinput. For evdev check my answer here.

With libinput:

Set mouse properties

xinput set-prop 11 "libinput Scroll Method Enabled" 0, 0, 1  # This is button

xinput set-prop 11 "libinput Button Scrolling Button" 2  # This is middle mouse. Already 2 by default

Description from man libinput:

libinput Scroll Method Enabled 3 boolean values (8 bit, 0 or 1), in order "two-finger", "edge", "button". Indicates which scroll method is currently enabled n this device.

libinput Button Scrolling Button 1 32-bit value. Sets the button number to use for button scrolling. This setting is independent of the scroll method, to nable button scrolling the method must be set to button-scrolling and a valid button must be set.

You can add this to a bash script and run it at login.

Like wheel, with the same movement while pressing Ctrl will zoom in/out page. Ctrl+0 to reset.

This work with X. With Wayland may be another story.

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answered Feb 3 at 17:24

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"For evdev [do one thing]. With libinput: [do another thing]." How do I know which of those applies to me? I've never heard of either before reading this answer.
– Mark Amery
Feb 3 at 17:28

@MarkAmery I don't know a straightforward way, kernel module (modinfo $(lsmod|grep -iE "input" | col1)) doesn't show it. But after you get your deviceID and list properties, if you are using libinput almost all properties will start with that word. Also you will have xserver-xorg-input-libinput package installed, libinput-list-devices command will list your device (certainly on /proc/bus/input/devices). If using X you will find more info diggin on /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/.
– Pablo Bianchi
Feb 3 at 18:10

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This is the better answer and should be accepted.
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However, there is a preference setting in Firefox and an extension available for Chrome/Chromium which would let you use middle mouse button for scrolling and activate this feature.

Firefox

Open your Preferences Dialog: Edit Menu >> Preferences.

Navigate to Advanced Tab and then General Tab.

Under Browsing, you would find the option called Use autoscrolling. Put a check mark beside this to activate this functionality in Firefox.

Chrome/Chromium

For Chrome/Chromium we can use an Extension called AutoScroll (from kaescripts.blogspot.com).

Go to this Link on Chrome Web Store (obviously using Chrome/Chromium).

Press on the button labeled ADD TO CHROME to install this extension.

Click on Add in the Confirmation Dialog Box.

Other Applications

Happy Scrolling!

answered Feb 4 '13 at 16:27

Aditya

456718

Awesome. I will try out the extensions at work tomorrow and then accept this answer. I'm fairly convinced by now that for most other applications there simply isn't a solution.
– Mark Amery
Feb 4 '13 at 18:32

@MarkAmery: Yup... For me this is the most annoying thing in Linux... It still annoys me in one of my folders which contains lots and lots of files... Otherwise, as I said, this feature is mostly useful for webpages, for which we have a solution at hand... :)
– Aditya
Feb 4 '13 at 18:36

2

It works! Yay! :)
– Mark Amery
Feb 5 '13 at 9:41

Funny it does not work on some websites like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/apps?hl=en itself.
– dashesy
Feb 27 '16 at 19:22

@dashesy Autoscrolling doesn't work on some websites because they hijack the scrolling behavior of the browser through JavaScript. You would find that autoscrolling doesn't work on those websites when using Windows as well where autoscrolling is the Operating System feature.
– Aditya
May 13 '16 at 15:48

|
show 2 more comments

up vote
27
down vote

accepted

However, there is a preference setting in Firefox and an extension available for Chrome/Chromium which would let you use middle mouse button for scrolling and activate this feature.

Firefox

Open your Preferences Dialog: Edit Menu >> Preferences.

Navigate to Advanced Tab and then General Tab.

Under Browsing, you would find the option called Use autoscrolling. Put a check mark beside this to activate this functionality in Firefox.

Chrome/Chromium

For Chrome/Chromium we can use an Extension called AutoScroll (from kaescripts.blogspot.com).

Go to this Link on Chrome Web Store (obviously using Chrome/Chromium).

Press on the button labeled ADD TO CHROME to install this extension.

Click on Add in the Confirmation Dialog Box.

Other Applications

Happy Scrolling!

answered Feb 4 '13 at 16:27

Aditya

456718

Awesome. I will try out the extensions at work tomorrow and then accept this answer. I'm fairly convinced by now that for most other applications there simply isn't a solution.
– Mark Amery
Feb 4 '13 at 18:32

@MarkAmery: Yup... For me this is the most annoying thing in Linux... It still annoys me in one of my folders which contains lots and lots of files... Otherwise, as I said, this feature is mostly useful for webpages, for which we have a solution at hand... :)
– Aditya
Feb 4 '13 at 18:36

2

It works! Yay! :)
– Mark Amery
Feb 5 '13 at 9:41

Funny it does not work on some websites like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/apps?hl=en itself.
– dashesy
Feb 27 '16 at 19:22

@dashesy Autoscrolling doesn't work on some websites because they hijack the scrolling behavior of the browser through JavaScript. You would find that autoscrolling doesn't work on those websites when using Windows as well where autoscrolling is the Operating System feature.
– Aditya
May 13 '16 at 15:48

|
show 2 more comments

up vote
27
down vote

accepted

However, there is a preference setting in Firefox and an extension available for Chrome/Chromium which would let you use middle mouse button for scrolling and activate this feature.

Firefox

Open your Preferences Dialog: Edit Menu >> Preferences.

Navigate to Advanced Tab and then General Tab.

Under Browsing, you would find the option called Use autoscrolling. Put a check mark beside this to activate this functionality in Firefox.

Chrome/Chromium

For Chrome/Chromium we can use an Extension called AutoScroll (from kaescripts.blogspot.com).

Go to this Link on Chrome Web Store (obviously using Chrome/Chromium).

Press on the button labeled ADD TO CHROME to install this extension.

Click on Add in the Confirmation Dialog Box.

Other Applications

Happy Scrolling!

answered Feb 4 '13 at 16:27

Aditya

456718

However, there is a preference setting in Firefox and an extension available for Chrome/Chromium which would let you use middle mouse button for scrolling and activate this feature.

Firefox

Open your Preferences Dialog: Edit Menu >> Preferences.

Navigate to Advanced Tab and then General Tab.

Under Browsing, you would find the option called Use autoscrolling. Put a check mark beside this to activate this functionality in Firefox.

Chrome/Chromium

For Chrome/Chromium we can use an Extension called AutoScroll (from kaescripts.blogspot.com).

Go to this Link on Chrome Web Store (obviously using Chrome/Chromium).

Press on the button labeled ADD TO CHROME to install this extension.

Click on Add in the Confirmation Dialog Box.

Other Applications

Happy Scrolling!

answered Feb 4 '13 at 16:27

Aditya

456718

answered Feb 4 '13 at 16:27

Aditya

456718

answered Feb 4 '13 at 16:27

Aditya

456718

answered Feb 4 '13 at 16:27

Aditya

456718

Awesome. I will try out the extensions at work tomorrow and then accept this answer. I'm fairly convinced by now that for most other applications there simply isn't a solution.
– Mark Amery
Feb 4 '13 at 18:32

@MarkAmery: Yup... For me this is the most annoying thing in Linux... It still annoys me in one of my folders which contains lots and lots of files... Otherwise, as I said, this feature is mostly useful for webpages, for which we have a solution at hand... :)
– Aditya
Feb 4 '13 at 18:36

2

It works! Yay! :)
– Mark Amery
Feb 5 '13 at 9:41

Funny it does not work on some websites like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/apps?hl=en itself.
– dashesy
Feb 27 '16 at 19:22

@dashesy Autoscrolling doesn't work on some websites because they hijack the scrolling behavior of the browser through JavaScript. You would find that autoscrolling doesn't work on those websites when using Windows as well where autoscrolling is the Operating System feature.
– Aditya
May 13 '16 at 15:48

|
show 2 more comments

Awesome. I will try out the extensions at work tomorrow and then accept this answer. I'm fairly convinced by now that for most other applications there simply isn't a solution.
– Mark Amery
Feb 4 '13 at 18:32

@MarkAmery: Yup... For me this is the most annoying thing in Linux... It still annoys me in one of my folders which contains lots and lots of files... Otherwise, as I said, this feature is mostly useful for webpages, for which we have a solution at hand... :)
– Aditya
Feb 4 '13 at 18:36

2

It works! Yay! :)
– Mark Amery
Feb 5 '13 at 9:41

Funny it does not work on some websites like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/apps?hl=en itself.
– dashesy
Feb 27 '16 at 19:22

@dashesy Autoscrolling doesn't work on some websites because they hijack the scrolling behavior of the browser through JavaScript. You would find that autoscrolling doesn't work on those websites when using Windows as well where autoscrolling is the Operating System feature.
– Aditya
May 13 '16 at 15:48

Awesome. I will try out the extensions at work tomorrow and then accept this answer. I'm fairly convinced by now that for most other applications there simply isn't a solution.
– Mark Amery
Feb 4 '13 at 18:32

@MarkAmery: Yup... For me this is the most annoying thing in Linux... It still annoys me in one of my folders which contains lots and lots of files... Otherwise, as I said, this feature is mostly useful for webpages, for which we have a solution at hand... :)
– Aditya
Feb 4 '13 at 18:36

It works! Yay! :)
– Mark Amery
Feb 5 '13 at 9:41

Funny it does not work on some websites like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/apps?hl=en itself.
– dashesy
Feb 27 '16 at 19:22

@dashesy Autoscrolling doesn't work on some websites because they hijack the scrolling behavior of the browser through JavaScript. You would find that autoscrolling doesn't work on those websites when using Windows as well where autoscrolling is the Operating System feature.
– Aditya
May 13 '16 at 15:48

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up vote
6
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This will work with all your applications without the need of installing anything.

Get your input deviceID. In my case (Logitech M315/M235) was 11.

xinput list

With libinput:

Set mouse properties

xinput set-prop 11 "libinput Scroll Method Enabled" 0, 0, 1  # This is button

xinput set-prop 11 "libinput Button Scrolling Button" 2  # This is middle mouse. Already 2 by default

Description from man libinput:

libinput Scroll Method Enabled 3 boolean values (8 bit, 0 or 1), in order "two-finger", "edge", "button". Indicates which scroll method is currently enabled n this device.

libinput Button Scrolling Button 1 32-bit value. Sets the button number to use for button scrolling. This setting is independent of the scroll method, to nable button scrolling the method must be set to button-scrolling and a valid button must be set.

You can add this to a bash script and run it at login.

Like wheel, with the same movement while pressing Ctrl will zoom in/out page. Ctrl+0 to reset.

This work with X. With Wayland may be another story.

edited Dec 2 at 3:30

answered Feb 3 at 17:24

Pablo Bianchi

453311

"For evdev [do one thing]. With libinput: [do another thing]." How do I know which of those applies to me? I've never heard of either before reading this answer.
– Mark Amery
Feb 3 at 17:28

@MarkAmery I don't know a straightforward way, kernel module (modinfo $(lsmod|grep -iE "input" | col1)) doesn't show it. But after you get your deviceID and list properties, if you are using libinput almost all properties will start with that word. Also you will have xserver-xorg-input-libinput package installed, libinput-list-devices command will list your device (certainly on /proc/bus/input/devices). If using X you will find more info diggin on /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/.
– Pablo Bianchi
Feb 3 at 18:10

1

This is the better answer and should be accepted.
– jtolds
Mar 10 at 19:01

add a comment |

up vote
6
down vote

This will work with all your applications without the need of installing anything.

Get your input deviceID. In my case (Logitech M315/M235) was 11.

xinput list

With libinput:

Set mouse properties

xinput set-prop 11 "libinput Scroll Method Enabled" 0, 0, 1  # This is button

xinput set-prop 11 "libinput Button Scrolling Button" 2  # This is middle mouse. Already 2 by default

Description from man libinput:

libinput Scroll Method Enabled 3 boolean values (8 bit, 0 or 1), in order "two-finger", "edge", "button". Indicates which scroll method is currently enabled n this device.

libinput Button Scrolling Button 1 32-bit value. Sets the button number to use for button scrolling. This setting is independent of the scroll method, to nable button scrolling the method must be set to button-scrolling and a valid button must be set.

You can add this to a bash script and run it at login.

Like wheel, with the same movement while pressing Ctrl will zoom in/out page. Ctrl+0 to reset.

This work with X. With Wayland may be another story.

edited Dec 2 at 3:30

answered Feb 3 at 17:24

Pablo Bianchi

453311

"For evdev [do one thing]. With libinput: [do another thing]." How do I know which of those applies to me? I've never heard of either before reading this answer.
– Mark Amery
Feb 3 at 17:28

@MarkAmery I don't know a straightforward way, kernel module (modinfo $(lsmod|grep -iE "input" | col1)) doesn't show it. But after you get your deviceID and list properties, if you are using libinput almost all properties will start with that word. Also you will have xserver-xorg-input-libinput package installed, libinput-list-devices command will list your device (certainly on /proc/bus/input/devices). If using X you will find more info diggin on /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/.
– Pablo Bianchi
Feb 3 at 18:10

1

This is the better answer and should be accepted.
– jtolds
Mar 10 at 19:01

add a comment |

up vote
6
down vote

This will work with all your applications without the need of installing anything.

Get your input deviceID. In my case (Logitech M315/M235) was 11.

xinput list

With libinput:

Set mouse properties

xinput set-prop 11 "libinput Scroll Method Enabled" 0, 0, 1  # This is button

xinput set-prop 11 "libinput Button Scrolling Button" 2  # This is middle mouse. Already 2 by default

Description from man libinput:

libinput Scroll Method Enabled 3 boolean values (8 bit, 0 or 1), in order "two-finger", "edge", "button". Indicates which scroll method is currently enabled n this device.

libinput Button Scrolling Button 1 32-bit value. Sets the button number to use for button scrolling. This setting is independent of the scroll method, to nable button scrolling the method must be set to button-scrolling and a valid button must be set.

You can add this to a bash script and run it at login.

Like wheel, with the same movement while pressing Ctrl will zoom in/out page. Ctrl+0 to reset.

This work with X. With Wayland may be another story.

edited Dec 2 at 3:30

answered Feb 3 at 17:24

Pablo Bianchi

453311

This will work with all your applications without the need of installing anything.

Get your input deviceID. In my case (Logitech M315/M235) was 11.

xinput list

With libinput:

Set mouse properties

xinput set-prop 11 "libinput Scroll Method Enabled" 0, 0, 1  # This is button

xinput set-prop 11 "libinput Button Scrolling Button" 2  # This is middle mouse. Already 2 by default

Description from man libinput:

libinput Scroll Method Enabled 3 boolean values (8 bit, 0 or 1), in order "two-finger", "edge", "button". Indicates which scroll method is currently enabled n this device.

libinput Button Scrolling Button 1 32-bit value. Sets the button number to use for button scrolling. This setting is independent of the scroll method, to nable button scrolling the method must be set to button-scrolling and a valid button must be set.

You can add this to a bash script and run it at login.

Like wheel, with the same movement while pressing Ctrl will zoom in/out page. Ctrl+0 to reset.

This work with X. With Wayland may be another story.

edited Dec 2 at 3:30

answered Feb 3 at 17:24

Pablo Bianchi

453311

edited Dec 2 at 3:30

answered Feb 3 at 17:24

Pablo Bianchi

453311

answered Feb 3 at 17:24

Pablo Bianchi

453311

answered Feb 3 at 17:24

Pablo Bianchi

453311

"For evdev [do one thing]. With libinput: [do another thing]." How do I know which of those applies to me? I've never heard of either before reading this answer.
– Mark Amery
Feb 3 at 17:28

@MarkAmery I don't know a straightforward way, kernel module (modinfo $(lsmod|grep -iE "input" | col1)) doesn't show it. But after you get your deviceID and list properties, if you are using libinput almost all properties will start with that word. Also you will have xserver-xorg-input-libinput package installed, libinput-list-devices command will list your device (certainly on /proc/bus/input/devices). If using X you will find more info diggin on /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/.
– Pablo Bianchi
Feb 3 at 18:10

1

This is the better answer and should be accepted.
– jtolds
Mar 10 at 19:01

add a comment |

"For evdev [do one thing]. With libinput: [do another thing]." How do I know which of those applies to me? I've never heard of either before reading this answer.
– Mark Amery
Feb 3 at 17:28

@MarkAmery I don't know a straightforward way, kernel module (modinfo $(lsmod|grep -iE "input" | col1)) doesn't show it. But after you get your deviceID and list properties, if you are using libinput almost all properties will start with that word. Also you will have xserver-xorg-input-libinput package installed, libinput-list-devices command will list your device (certainly on /proc/bus/input/devices). If using X you will find more info diggin on /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/.
– Pablo Bianchi
Feb 3 at 18:10

1

This is the better answer and should be accepted.
– jtolds
Mar 10 at 19:01

"For evdev [do one thing]. With libinput: [do another thing]." How do I know which of those applies to me? I've never heard of either before reading this answer.
– Mark Amery
Feb 3 at 17:28

@MarkAmery I don't know a straightforward way, kernel module (modinfo $(lsmod|grep -iE "input" | col1)) doesn't show it. But after you get your deviceID and list properties, if you are using libinput almost all properties will start with that word. Also you will have xserver-xorg-input-libinput package installed, libinput-list-devices command will list your device (certainly on /proc/bus/input/devices). If using X you will find more info diggin on /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/.
– Pablo Bianchi
Feb 3 at 18:10

This is the better answer and should be accepted.
– jtolds
Mar 10 at 19:01

add a comment |

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