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Two-finger scrolling not working since ubuntu 17.10+
The answer here by @hpotter40 worked for me:
$ sudo modprobe -r psmouse
$ sudo modprobe psmouse
This was taken from comment #16 of this bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+...
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How to make Document Viewer allow me to scroll through the pages?
What you want is called "continuous" scrolling. The location of the setting might differ from version to version. In Ubuntu GNOME 16.04:
In older versions and in Unity, I think it might be in the "...
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Inverted Horizontal scrolling ubuntu 18.04
I also encountered this issue upon upgrading to 18.04, this was my solution:
Use xinput list to find the device id of your touchpad.
Use xinput list-props yourdeviceid. This will produce a long ...
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Inverted Horizontal scrolling ubuntu 18.04
See this:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad
Use the following commands to set the amount and direction of natural scrolling (plus or minus values change direction):
synclient ...
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How to enable natural scrolling in xfce4?
This is a known bug: LP:1368402
A good and simple solution (workaround) that allows to use natural scrolling in every application (including Chrome and Gnome ones), tested on Xenial 16.04, is the ...
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How to solve a scrolling misbehavior after doing Alt+Tab?
Installing and running imwheel fixes the problem for me.
$ sudo apt-get install imwheel
$ imwheel
INFO: imwheel started (pid=80085)
You have to start it at every boot (or add it at the ...
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Can I scroll to new lines using mouse wheel inside git diff?
Thanks to @edwinksl's answer I managed to find a solution to the problem.
So by default git uses LESS as a pager and I believe the default arguments are FRSX.
On git 1.8+ you can remove options with ...
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How to add natural (/inverted) mouse-scrolling in i3 window manager?
Edit /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf
Add there Option "NaturalScrolling" "True" like this:
For your mouse:
# Match on all types of devices but joysticks
Section "InputClass"
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Enable natural scrolling on ubuntu 17.04 with gnome-shell
I'm running Ubuntu Gnome 17.04 on a Dell XPS 15 9530, and here's what worked for me:
The solution was to leave xserver-xorg-input-libinput installed, and instead remove xserver-xorg-input-synaptics, ...
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How to set unlimited scrolling on a TTY?
First, you buy unlimited memory.
Take a look at the kernel paramter fbcon=scrollback:Nk where N is the desired buffer size is kilobytes. The default is 32k, so increase it from there.
To increase ...
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How to fix microsoft mouse scrolling speed on ubuntu
Open a prompt
List your devices, pay attention to the id from the device you want to fix, if there are 2 of them, it's ok.
$ xinput list
Mine was 9 and 10
⎡ Virtual core pointer ...
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Touchpad scroll not working properly after Suspend
After several tries, I managed to find a solution and made it run automatically after reading this thread. I've only tested it on Ubuntu 18.10:
Basically, restarting the touchpad with these commands ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 scrolling jumps when alternating between windows
Apparently this bug also happens, for example, on Visual Studio Code, probably there is something wrong with X11, and it is reported by some users here, here and here. It is mentioned by some users in ...
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How to enable natural scrolling in xfce4?
I searched a lot and also found a bugreport about it, but the solution was easy:
You have to select the Touchpad-device in the selectbox at the top of the mouse-settings.
(It was a bit hard, to find,...
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Inverted Horizontal scrolling ubuntu 18.04
Here's a little script that does it for you
export id=$(xinput list | grep -i touchpad | awk -F"=" '{ print $2 }' | awk '{ print $1 }')
xinput list-props "${id}" | grep "...
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wsl terminal has no scroll
What helped me was clicking on the opened WSL window properties, in the Layout tab, in Screen Buffer Size, setting Height 9999 (maximum allowed), with the option "Wrap text output on screen" ...
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Precise scrolling in Firefox?
This is a bug in upstream ("upstream" means, like, "original") Firefox. According to some sources this can be worked around by putting MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 to /etc/environment file, and rebooting (I ...
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How to disable horizontal scrolling in Ubuntu 18.04 in terminal?
I found the answer to my own question, and so wanted to share what worked for me in case others are stuck. Pilot6's answer to the same question asked for 16.04 works with a little modification for 18....
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20.04 Natural scrolling not persisting between sessions
edit:
I just found a better solution / workaround to my original answer:
Add Option "NaturalScrolling" "on" to /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf
In context:
Section "...
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control scrolling speed in webpages in firefox
Open a new tab in Firefox, and enter into the address bar: about:config.
There may be a warning about the sensitivity of the advanced settings within, accept the risk and proceed.
There will be a ...
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Enable natural scrolling on ubuntu 17.04 with gnome-shell
had the same problem.
solved:
sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-libinput
sudo apt purge xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
then reboot
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GNOME Shell: Maximize/switch apps by scrolling in taskbar
There is no need to install another dock extension, the cycle windows feature can be enabled for the Ubuntu dock from command line:
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock scroll-action ...
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Two-finger scrolling not working since ubuntu 17.10+
You can enable two finger scroll by clicking System Settings > Mouse & Touchpad. You will see a window like this
You can (un)check the check box according to your preference.
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How to stop scrolling from switching between windows in Unity?
In Ubuntu 16.04, this is fairly straightforward to disable, even if it isn't intuitive. Simply enter the following command in a terminal:
gsettings set org.compiz.unityshell:/org/compiz/profiles/...
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Touchpad scroll not working properly after Suspend
Thinkpad Touchpad scrolling fixed (Permanently)!!!
First, go to the path and edit grub using any editor (run command using sudo).
Using vim editor: sudo vim /etc/default/grub
or
Using ...
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Mouse constantly scrolling down
Unbelievable, but the problem was that my wireless keyboard and my wireless mouse's receivers were both on adjacent usb ports. when i moved my mouse's reciever to a further away port, I found that my ...
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Is there a command to scroll?
Not exactly what you asked for, because the OP asked for "10px" scrolling, but since it also asked for "what is executed when the wheel is rolled". In Linux, when the wheel is ...
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Any updates on disabling middle-click paste?
Here's the best solution I've found to keep middle click functional without it pasting things.
First install sxhkd and xsel.
Then configure ./.config/.sxhkd/sxhkdrc like so
~button2
echo -n | ...
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Turn off smooth scrolling in GTK3
I solved this by disabling animations in the gnome shell. Disabling animations will disable all animations. This setting can be changed in many different ways. For the change to take effect in gedit, ...
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Turn off smooth scrolling in GTK3
Edit the file ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini to contain the following lines:
[Settings]
gtk-enable-animations=0
If the file doesn't exist, create it. If the file already exists and already has a [...
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