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Inverted mouse wheel functioning
The scrolling of my mouse wheel is inverted (i.e when I drag the wheel downwards, the screen moves upwards) only when any web browser windows are open. Can anybody help me fix this with my 12.04? It's ...
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Ubuntu sidebar won't register scroll wheel when trying to scroll vertically
I upgraded from Ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04, and I've noticed something is not working properly. In 12.10 it was easy to slide up and down the vertically-inclined sidebar by simply rolling the mouse wheel ...
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No more scroll wheel scrolling along the sidebar in 13.04?
Just upgraded to 13, and one thing that I have immediately noticed it lacking is scrolling via the mouse scroll wheel through icons stored in the sidebar. This was my primary way of getting up and ...
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Increase mouse wheel scrool speed
As the title says, I want to increase the number of rows that are passed when I use the mouse wheel for scrolling. I know that there exists ways to do that for Firefox and Chromium, although I want ...
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How to increase mouse wheel sensitivity with a modifier key?
The sensitivity of the mouse scroll wheel famously cannot be adjusted as is explained in this question and the many duplicates asking the same.
I am wondering whether there is a simple fix available ...
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Logitech G700 not scrolling
I have just installed Ubuntu 12.04 in a virtual machine (Virtual Box running on Windows 7). But I have a problem using my Logitech G700 mouse. If I use the scroll-wheel nothing happens, but I can ...
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Horizontal clicking on scroll wheel acts as “back” and “forward” instead of horizontal scrolling
I've really bought a Lenovo wireless mouse which makes "back" and "forward" actions in Ubuntu instead of horizontal scroll when I push on the sides of the scroll wheel.
Is there any way I can change ...
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Why is the middle button mapped to pasting?
I'm in love with Ubuntu, but I really HATE this feature. I am a programmer and it happened a number of times that I introduced a bug because I inadvertently pasted some code which didn't belong there. ...
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Scroll with Middle Click
Can i use the middle click mouse button so i can scroll down faster like windows?
I mean when i am in windows and i press the middle click somewhere i can scroll in a 4 way pointer shows on the screen ...
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Can I enable OS X-style mouse wheel scrolling (not natural scrolling)
This is the way that Mac OS scrolling with a boring old handheld mouse works (as opposed to fancy soap bar and multitouch mice): The more and the faster you scroll, the further the mouse scrolling ...
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Can Mouse Wheel Scrolling be enabled in Byobu
I've seen elsewhere that scrolling via the mouse wheel (and other mousy events) can be enabled for tmux.. can this feature also be enabled in byobu (over tmux) and how?
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My mouse wheel skips half the page
I have the "Mac OSX Lion" theme installed on my Ubuntu 12.04.1 computer.
I have this glitch with my scroll wheel, that when I try to scroll down the page,l it skips about 1/2 of it.
What can I do to ...
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My trackpad is not working on my laptop, so no movement of cursor. How to debug it?
It was running 10 days ago when i last used it.
and how to open terminal window without cursor?
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Mouse scroll not working on Oracle VirtualBox
I have Windows7x64 and Oracle VirtualBox 4.1.18 installed on it.I installed Ubuntu 12.04x64 and when I use it, mouse scrolling(Logitech M175) is not working. What I should do to make it work?
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Gedit inserts blank lines sporadically when using scroll wheel
I do extensive editing of text files using gedit. If I use the scroll wheel to move back and forth in the file, sometimes a blank line is inserted in the file. This is not obvious when it occurs. I ...
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How can I configure the mouse scrollwheel sensitivity? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Increasing scroll speed
Is there anyway to increase the speed of the wheel scrolling of my mouse in Ubuntu? I use extended files (PDFs, web pages etc) and I need to ...
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Turn off Microsoft Explorer Touch Mouse Haptic feedback?
I got a new Microsoft Explorer Touch Mouse recently, and I like it a lot. The one thing that drives me a little batty is the Haptic Feedback "buzzer" it uses when you scroll. The Windows driver has ...
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gpointing-device-settings lost on reboot
I've been using gpointing-device-settings to enable both two-finger and edge scrolling on my trackpad, but it seems to not "remember" after reboot. The settings are still "ticked" in ...
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How to disable mouse wheel scroll in ubuntu 11.04 or 10.10?
ive got problem with broken scroll wheel. (I know i shoud change mouse, its old). And i want to just disable wheel scroll but not middle button click.
I know that it is possible to do, but cant find ...
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Swapping the double and triple finger tap actions on trackpad
I am looking for a way to swap the 'tap' action when using two and three fingers. At the moment, as standard, double-finger-tapping right clicks, and tripple-finger-tapping middle clicks ... I would ...
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The scroll wheels on all of my mice are unresponsive, how can I fix this? [closed]
I've tried a few different mice and all exhibit the same issue:
Only about two fifths of the "ticks" from each mouse's scroll wheel actually do anything.
Distressingly, it seems to be random. ...
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Mouse (in VirtualBox) scrolls horizontally
(the context of this question is within virtualbox, but AFAIK it shouldn't really be different)
I have a Microsoft 5-button mouse plugged in, to which scrolling scrolls horizontally. Any ideas?
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Mouse wheel jumpy on scrolling
I have a small issue that's really annoying me and wondering if there is a possible fix for it.
im using the latest distro of Ubuntu 10.10 and when scrolling up and down pages, especially in google ...
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Increasing scroll speed
I've recently switched to Ubuntu, and the one thing that has been bothering me is the scroll speed, which I can't seem to change. In windows I used to have it set around 7 lines, but it seem to be ...
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How can I change the mouse's wheel scroll rate?
I'm using Chrome, and the scroll rate is like 3 lines, and it's painfully slow. My finger gets tired really quickly on long pages. System → Preferences → Mouse lacks any scroll wheel configuration ...
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How to adjust TouchPad edge scroll area in Ubuntu?
I have an Acer Aspire that I have dual booting XP and Ubuntu.
On the Windows side, the driver allows you to set how close your finger has to be to the edge of the TouchPad before it goes into scroll ...
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My mouse wheel has stopped scrolling up and down
My mouse wheel has stopped working. It doesn't scroll up and down when previously it worked. How can I configure what each button of the mouse does?
Thanks
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Opera-like tab-switching in chrome or firefox
Is there a way of switching tabs in Chrome or Firefox by scrolling the mouse-wheel while keeping the right mouse-button pressed?
In Chrome or Firefox (with tab-wheel-scroll extension) you can switch ...
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How to use mouse scroll to hide windows?
I used to set the mouse scroll to hide the windows when scrolling on the title bar: alas, I can't remember how I did that...
Can you please tell me how to achieve it?
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How to fix my middle mouse button being recognized as left mouse button?
I've updated my system to 10.10 and since then my "middle mouse button" (on my laptop, under touchpad) is recognized as my "left mouse button". If i open xev, i can see that both, my "left and middle ...
