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Windows-like middle-mouse button behaviour? (pawb.social)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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On Windows, if you click MMB on some windows, your mouse cursor will turn into a little ↕️ icon, and then you can scroll by moving the mouse cursor up and down, with it going faster the further you drag away from the position it was originally at.

This is one (1) behaviour I miss from Windows. Hours upon hours of scroll-wheeling makes my joints quite tired.

But well. Linux is nothing if not customisable, so I'm wondering if there's a way to recreate this behaviour on it.

I'm on KDE Plasma.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

In Firefox (and many forks of it) this is a setting in the app preferences, I think it is called "~~smooth scrolling~~ autoscrolling" or similar.

In most other apps I do not think this is possible.

edited, thanks for correction below

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Having that on Firefox is already quite the game changer. I just had no idea it was there. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Didn't realize this was a Firefox setting! "Use autoscrolling" was what worked for me

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

yup, now that I think of it again, I think smooth scrolling is something different, autoscrolling is what I meant

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Wow thanks. Was missing that for a long time.