Questions tagged [scrolling]
Issues with scrollbars, mouse scrollwheels, and touchpad gestures used for scrolling
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How do I enable scrolling with a mouse in a TTY in Ubuntu?
When I use gpm with a mouse in a TTY (ctrl+alt+f1), it allows mouse movements with a blinking cursor and such but scrolling with my mouse wheel doesn't cause any visible changes. How do I enable ...
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How do I adjust the mousewheel scroll speed on wayland on ubuntu 17.10
I have a logitech M500 mouse (M-U0007) and am running the default wayland (I think?) gnome desktop on 17.10. The scrollwheel speed is quite slow and I'd like to boost it a little. I found a few posts ...
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Logitech G700 mouse scrollwheel is way too sensitive, how can I configure it?
I am trying to migrate my brother to use Ubuntu.
However, his Logitech G700 mouse's scroll wheel is extremely sensitive.
By sensitive, I mean that, due to the fact that it uses high-resolution ...
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Chromium browser scrolling slow
I just switched from Win7 to Ubuntu (no dual boot) and one thing I kind of ''miss'' is that I can change the scrolling speed... but I like the scrollspeed in the system itself but not in chromium ...
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Mouse scrolling jumps up and down (very uneven and hard to control) in Ubuntu 15.10
I have Ubuntu 15.10. Page scrolling is very hard to control with this mouse. When attempting to scroll with the mouse wheel, the scrolling sometimes moves erratically and often jumps back in reverse. ...
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Touchpad inertia scrolling everywhere 16.04
If I scroll with a touchpad in apps like nautilus and the software center in 16.04, I get a nice smooth result which has inertia scrolling (I think it's called that, maybe momentum or coasting). But ...
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How to configure Synaptics circular/chiral scrolling to make smaller circles?
In Windows I can use circular/Chiral scrolling by drawing very small circles (green circles) but in Ubuntu/Linux I have to make big circles to makes it work. Otherwise the page keep going up and down.
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Make Overlay Scroll Bars always on?
I think the overlay scrollbars that come up in menus and the Nautilus file manager work really well, especially with my touchscreen (it doesn't allow gestures, rather bittersweet). I've found ways to ...
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Is there a way to enable coasting or inertial scrolling on Ubuntu 20.04?
I'm on a desktop using a mouse and on windows I enjoy inertial scrolling the MS Edge provides by default. However that's not the case for Edge on linux, or any of the chromium browsers. Firefox is ...
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LibreOffice touch screen scrolling on Ubuntu 18.04
I use LibreOffice on Ubuntu 18.04. Touch screen scrolling doesn't seem to work in the app (I have it working outside the app and in other apps such as Firefox). In LibreOffice it just highlights text (...
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Scrolling Up/Down with a keyboard shortcut
I have a scroll wheel that doesn't work and don't really wanna buy a new mouse, on windows there was a way to make this happen, I was wondering if there is a way I can setup a keyboard shortcut to ...
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Natural Scrolling on Ubuntu Gnome isn't working
I have what is (as far as I can remember) a vanilla Ubuntu installation (v.14.10) using the Gnome Desktop (v.3.9.90), yet I can't seem to get reverse scrolling to work.
There's no option for natural ...
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Automatic smooth scrolling Evince
I was wondering if there is a way to enable automatic smooth scrolling with evince pdf reader in ubuntu 18.04.
I know about the ctrl+arrows, but i usually scroll the vim way with k and j keys.
I can't ...
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Horizontal natural scroll is reversed
After upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04, when I enable the Natural Scrolling setting and scroll with two fingers horizontally it works as if I didn't enable it, i.e. the behavior is the same as with natural ...
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MacOS-like Elastic Scrolling in GNOME?
I just saw a differing question about scrolling in GNOME and it reminded me that there is no elastic scrolling in GNOME, which completely changes the feel of my computer.
How do you make it so when ...
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fixing the touchpad scroll speed in ubuntu 18.04 - libinput
I know this has has been beaten to death but I still couldn't get it to work based on the solutions I've seen for similar questions. It's always a mouse using libinput or a touchpad using synaptics or ...
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Not able to scroll in Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS. Touchpad settings are missing under Mouse & Touchpad
Image of Mouse & Touchpad settings
Edit: I have to bring my pointer to the scroll bar, press left click and then I am able to go up and down the page. I did some research regarding my problem, ...
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How do I fix the Ubuntu app drawer when it will not scroll through my programs?
I am running Ubuntu 20.04 and all of the sudden I went to scroll through my programs in the app drawer and I cannot scroll down. I can use the arrow keys to go down to an application, but I cannot see ...
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Is there any way in ubuntu 18.04 to add up/down arrows to all scrollbars (default)?
I would like to add up and down arrows to my scrollbars in Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS.
If you are on any page that has a lot of length then it is impossible to grab the scrollbar thumb-wheel and move with ...
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Mouse Wheel not Working Suddenly - Ubuntu 18.04
I have a basic mouse connected to my computer running Ubuntu 18.04 via USB (it is a wired mouse). All of a sudden my mouse scrolling wheel stopped working. This is odd since it was working before, and ...
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Mouse scroll doesn't work while moving pointer on VMWare Workstation with Ubuntu 18.04
Odd bug - Scrolling works somewhat smoothly as one would expect, however while moving the mouse-pointer it completely stops scrolling and locks in place.
I have read bugs regarding having a non-...
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Thinkpad trackpoint scrolling speed
How can one change trackpoint scrolling speed? It's way to slow (T480s + Ubuntu 18.04). Mouse speed setting seems working fine and mouse speed is suitable but it doesn't affect scrolling speed at all. ...
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Erratic scrollwheel behavior - scrolling moves page randomly top or down
While scrolling using my wireless mouse, the behavior seems erratic. Sometimes while scrolling down, the page will scroll up and vice versa. The behavior intensifies if I scroll faster, and seems to ...
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Mouse scroll is jumpy in Ubuntu 16.04
I am having a problem with my USB mouse in Ubuntu 16.04. The scrolling is very jumpy in any window that I working in (be it a native application, or in the chrome webbrowser). I know that some issues ...
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Cannot scroll downwards, cannot select and scroll downwards for all browsers, cannot scroll down dota
), I noticed i cannot select text and scroll down in any browser (not just chrome - from other Ubuntu questions) but scrolling up is fine. This same thing occurs during DOTA, where moving the mouse ...
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Avoid automatic cursor hide
My cursor hides after a few seconds of not moving it. The problem is it also disables the scroll option, so it's very annoying when reading texts etc.
Initially I thought it could be a consequence of ...
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How to enable natural scrolling for GNOME terminal in 14.04?
I'm newbie to Ubuntu, freshly installed 14.04 on Dell Inspiron laptop.
I enabled 'two finger scrolling' and 'natural scrolling' from 'Mouse and Touchpad' settings. Natural scrolling with two-finger ...
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Not able to do multitouch gestures(except two finger scrolling) on touchpad
On the site: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Multitouch
It says that unity supports 3 finger pinch to maximize/restore windows and many more gestures.
I am not able to use these multi touch features.
I can ...
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Mouse wheel clicks but doesn't scroll after 22.04 LTS inline upgrade
Old Asus laptop that was running Xubuntu 20.04 LTS, upgraded in place to 22.04 LTS. Mouse is a Logitech M320 USB wireless. The middle button clicks, pastes, etc., but does not scroll (anywhere, any ...
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Scrolling fails on Ubuntu 22.04
I just upgraded from Ubuntu 20.04 to Ubuntu 22.04.
All scrolling was working fine on the v20.04 but now completely fails with all applications after I upgraded to v22.04.
The OS was the only thing I ...
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How to fix fast scrolling in Ubuntu 20.04.3 running in hyper-v?
I am using Ubuntu via hyper-v.. two finger scroll via touchpad is too sensitive (ie) it is too fast for page scroll. I am also not getting touchpad options in settings.
I tried to install and reboot, ...
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Wheel scrolling with imwheel inconsistent
Xubuntu 20.04 guest running in VirtualBox on top of Windows 10
Wheel scrolling was too slow, so I installed imwheel as recommended on Increase mouse wheel scroll speed (and similar resources) and ...
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How to have smooth scrolling in Ubuntu 20.04?
I miss the inertial scrolling in Windows 10. Is there a way to implement global-wide smooth scrolling in Ubuntu 20.04? The scrolling feels clunky, and I’d love for it to be smoother.
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how can I toggle the mousewheel behavior in Tilix?
I'm using Tilix as a terminal on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal).
At the moment, I have two shells opened (two instances of bash) in a split window, both working, but:
one has a scrollbar and responds to "...
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Programs scroll by themselves, and in terminal certain text appears by itself ~~~~~
I recently upgrade GNOME and certain things started happening:
In any window that can scroll, after a certain amount of time scrolling down happens by itself, even if I try to scroll up again it will ...
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Horizontal Scroll with Mouse does not work on 18.04
I am using ubuntu 18.04 and I have logitech G500 mouse with a scroll button in the middle.
My goal is to do horizontal scrolling by tilting the scroll button left and right. I was able to do this on ...
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Change Scroll Wheel Speed for Logitech M570
If I do xinput list-props "Logitech M570" I get
Device 'Logitech M570':
Device Enabled (142): 1
Coordinate Transformation Matrix (144): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0....
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Chrome scrolling issue
As we all know, Ubuntu 18.04 has a few scrolling issues.
But I notices something really interesting. In general, I don't have many problems with scrolling. But I have one which is very annoying.
When ...
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Why does the first scroll action in some windows get ignored?
Whenever I move my cursor out of and into a window, the next scroll event gets ignored. This happens for (for example) Google Chrome, gnome-terminal, gnome-system-monitor and Slack, but not in Firefox,...
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Mouse scroll problem
When I am using the mouse wheel to scroll it is very jumpy and often I am ending up on the same line or above when I try to scroll down. I have read threads about the same problem but the only ...
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In Unity, how can I change the launcher so that it doesn't automatically scroll to the top?
I have Ubuntu 16.04.1 installed on my tablet and its difficult to use because the launcher always scrolls to the top. I want to set it up so that it simply doesn't automatically scroll at all, what ...
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I just updated from ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 and I'm having a problem with scrolling
I just updated from ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 and I'm having a problem with scrolling.
The problem is the mouse click to scroll a page at a time has swapped from the old left click to page up down to ...
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Since last update I have annoying problem with scrolling on touchpad 16.04
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on ThinkPad T440s and since last Update (which was also the first after installing this version), I'm experiencing annoying "jump-to-up"s when I try to scroll with two ...
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How can I disable continuous scrolling in ubuntu touchpad?
In Trusty Tahr (14.04 LTS) when I use two-finger scrolling in everywhere, say chrome and it sensed the touch-pad for 1 second to go up or down for scrolling. The website continued the scrolling for ...
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UX31E, synaptic touchpad, two finger scrolling, jumping around
I have some problem with my ASUS UX31E Synaptic touchpad (Ubuntu 14.04). Unlike many people are having problem getting all the functionalities, I have all them, including 2-finger scrolling, working. ...
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Touchpad scroll not working after an update
I have updated ubuntu 14.04. Previously the touchpad scrolling worked but after updating, it doesn't work. I have tried several things but keep failing. Here's the screenshot
I also have installed ...
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Two finger scrolling and other multitouch gestures are not working on asus laptop model x555u.
Output of xinput list:
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ELAN1000:00 04F3:...
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Trackpad scroll goes nuts
I've had Ubuntu of my laptop for about a week, and although the two-fingered scroll on my trackpad usually works fine, every now and then some widget flips out and thinks I'm scrolling when I just ...
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Problems while scrolling: scrollbar jumps randomly(?)
I use ubuntu 14.04 on VirtualBox.
When I scroll vertically on a page the viewable area sometimes jumps to another part of the page. E.g. I scroll down on a website and the window jumps back to the ...
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Wacom stylus scrolling with eraser
I have thikpad x200 Tablet. Is this possible to use eraser for emulating mouse wheel?
If it is possible can you pose any guide?