I want to increase the mouse wheel scroll speed in Google Chrome on Ubuntu 12.04.
I've read How to change my mouse wheel scroll rate?, I'm on Unity though, how can I edit the commandline for the Chrome icon in the starter bar?
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Sign up to join this communityI want to increase the mouse wheel scroll speed in Google Chrome on Ubuntu 12.04.
I've read How to change my mouse wheel scroll rate?, I'm on Unity though, how can I edit the commandline for the Chrome icon in the starter bar?
The .desktop files you are looking for are stored in /usr/share/applications/
To change the mouse wheel speed open the .desktop file:
sudo -i gedit /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop
and then go the 'Desktop Entry' section and look for following line (mine is on line 108):
Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome
and change it to (you can use any value you like instead of 150):
Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --scroll-pixels=150 %U
Hint: if you use Chromium instead of Google Chrome, edit the chromium-browser.desktop file ;)