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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] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I have a couple of Logitech Mx Master 3S mice I use. One really nice feature is that you can 'unlock' the mouse scroll wheel so that there's no resistance. Just spin it fast and it'll keep scrolling for quite a long time.

Actually this most recent version will do click scrolling when the wheel is spun at low speeds, but unlock and let the wheel fly when spun faster. Really great feature.

I know it's also not what you were asking about, but I don't know of that feature in Linux.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I actually have one of those Logi mice with unlockable scrollwheels

...... I only lock it for playing FPSes, to use the wheel to switch weapons. Otherwise it stays unlocked for minimal resistance.