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Disable CTRL+mouse wheel zooming in Chrome?
I'm a normal-sighted person and I would like to view pages at 100% all the time. I use keyboard shortcuts that involve CTRL a lot, so about twenty times a day I accidentally hit CTRL at the same time ...
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How can I adjust the mouse scroll wheel sensitivity?
I just replaced my old Logitech mouse with a Microsoft Wireless Laser mouse, and the scrolling is too fast for my liking.
How can I adjust the scroll sensitivity?
Update:
I just updated to 10.04, ...
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Windows 7 Explorer - Activate mouse focus to be able to scroll in tree and file view?
I'd like to be able to scroll in the tree view without having to click in it. Is there a way to do this?
I have once used a tool that generally gives focus to the window underneath the mouse cursor, ...
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Mouse wheel scrolling in less and vim using urxvt
I have started working with rxvt-unicode (aka urxvt) but found an issue with mouse-wheel scrolling, as compared to gnome-terminal and konsole. The mouse wheel works fine for going through the ...
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Google Chrome mouse wheel takes keyboard focus
I recently switched the default browser on all my machines from Firefox to Google Chrome. In general I’m loving Chrome but there is one behaviour that is driving me nuts. Scrolling with the mouse ...
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Emulate mouse wheel scroll with keyboard
Some programs (e.g. ms html help viewer) have zoom-in features that only seem to work when you mouse wheel scroll.
Is there a way to emulate mouse wheel scroll using the keyboard?
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Logitech wheel middle click not working in XP
On my previous PC (same os, same trackball (Logitech TrackMan Wheel) I was able to middle click tabs in firefox and visual studio to close them (and middle click links in FF to open in new tabs).
I ...
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How can I get google chrome to switch tabs using the mouse wheel?
At home I'm running Fedora 17, and I've grown accustomed to quickly scanning through open tabs by using the mouse wheel while hovering over the tab bar. It's a very natural gesture for me now.
At ...
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Why is Firefox 4 ignoring my mouse scrollwheel input?
This is getting on my nerves - for some reason Firefox 4 is ignoring my mouse scrollwheel input. In other words, rolling the scrollwheel does nothing in Firefox 4.
It works fine in just about every ...
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Is the mouse wheel behaviour of Mac OS X or Linux possible in Windows?
In Linux or Mac OS X, every window I hover over registers mouse wheel events without being the focused window. For instance I can have two windows open at the same time and scroll in each one of them ...
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Mac OS X zoom in application with mouse wheel
I am coming from Windows and miss the feature that allows to increase/decrease the text size in many applications (Chrome, PDF readers, Text editors,...) by using CTRL-MouseWheel. Instead the size of ...
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Need a new mouse: clicky scroll wheel and additional thumb-operated scroll wheel
I'm having some carpel tunnel syndrome or RSI issues, and I need to get a new mouse.
I've tried a friend's Logitech MX Revolution and it's almost perfect. I LOVE the thumb-operated scroll wheel, and ...
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Setting the mouse wheel to adjust sound level
How can I set my mouse's wheel to increase and decrease the sound level of my PC?
Mouse: A4 X-750F
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Font zooming without a wheel
Ever since Windows 7 I've found my desktop's mouse has the magical ability to zoom the font used within most apps if I hold CTRL while rotating the mouse wheel.
Is there a way I can implement this ...
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Geting focus when rotating mouse wheel
In Ubuntu when you rotate mouse wheel while mouse pointer is in a region (for example you can volume up or down without any click while you rotate mouse on volume icon in system trey), that region ...
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Sync vertical scroll between two windows
I need to visually compare two documents of different formats, hence I would like to be able to vertically scroll in two different applications at the same time. I'd prefer to use the mouse wheel to ...
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Mouse wheel scrolls the page down then up, or up then down
On my Windows 7, system, in all programs, when I scroll down with my mouse, it will scroll someway down then then scroll someway up. It is totally erratic, and is driving me crazy.
I do have a ...
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How to invert mouse scroll wheel zoom direction in Firefox?
When scrolling down the mouse wheel with CTRL, the zoom decreases. I would like it to increase when I scroll down, and vice versa.
Is there a way to change it?
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Mouse wheel Chrome bug
When I use the mouse wheel in Chrome (15.0.865.0) to scroll in most text area boxes (even in the questions with similar titles area in SU as I am writing this), I can scroll far beyond the text, and ...
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Setting mouse scroll wheel to scroll less than 1 line in Windows
I am trying to fine tune my mouse scroll wheel behavior.
When I go to Control Panel > Mouse Properties, there is the setting for [Roll the wheel one notch to scroll]. The minimum allowed setting is 1 ...
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VMPlayer, Windows 7 and mouse scrolling
I'm using VMPlayer 4.0 and Windows 7 image in it.
My biggest problem is, that I can't use mouse vertical scrolling.
Did anybody of you have the same problem and know solution?
Thank you in advance,
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Mouse wheel scrolls when it shouldn't in Windows 7
I am running Windows 7 Home Premium x64, Service Pack 1.
My mouse is a Logitech MX620 Cordless Laser Mouse, driver provided by Logitech: Logitech HID-compliant Cordless Mouse, version 5.20.12.0 ...
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Disable click action after letting up from scrolling with mouse wheel in Google Chrome [closed]
For convenience I scroll by holding down the wheel of my Logitech mouse at the same time as I move the mouse itself up and down (but not moving or rotating the mouse wheel forward or backward).
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X-scrollwheel in Windows
Is there any way to have mouse-wheel events sent to whatever window is underneath the mouse pointer, even if it's not the active window? I'd like to have x-scrollwheel capabilities without having to ...
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my mouse scroll wheel doesn't scroll
It's only a minor thing but i can't solve it.
I have a ps2 mouse on win xp sp3. the wheel has stopped scrolling in all apps however in apps that support it i can click the wheel and bring up the ...
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How to turn off “smart” scrolling mouse wheel in OSX?
I'm currently working on OSX and it seems that Apple has built in some sort of "smart" mouse wheel scrolling where if you turn the mouse wheel slow the page moves slow and if you scroll fast the page ...
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Scrolling mouse sets windows sound volume
Suddenly, when I use the scroll wheel of my mouse, it changes the windows sound volume level.
I have a HP DV6-2030SD laptop with Windows 7 64 bit and a Zolid p50622 mouse. When I use the scroll ...
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Can't move up or down with the mouse wheel toward the left of the screen
My mouse wheel doesn't work on the left of my computer screen: I can't go up nor down using my mouse wheel when my cursor is hovering a strip which width is about from 5% to 30% from the left of my ...
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Strange mouse wheel behavior on Windows 7
I have a Windows 7 x64 Enterprise SP1 Dell Optiplex 980 system with a Dell mouse. Under the Control Panel > Mouse, and Mouse Properties tab it says "Name: HID-compliant mouse". It's a Dell basic ...
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FireFox 4 - Is it possible to disable the left and right arrows at either end of the tabs?
I always use the wheel on my mouse to scroll back and forth along my open tags.
I was wondering if there was some way to hide the arrows at either end to free up a bit more space for viewing tabs.
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Enable Ctrl+Mouse Wheel in Firefox
usually, scrolling horizontally can be done on Windows machines with Ctrl + mouse wheel. Now, Firefox uses this to increase/decrease page size (which I hardly ever use).
Is there a way to tell FF to ...
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How do I stop scripts from accessing the mouse wheel in Firefox?
I'm using Firefox 16.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.6.8, including the NoScript 2.5.9 plugin. Sometimes when browsing, a web site will have an embedded map or the like within it, and when scrolling down the page ...
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I have a vaio and my touchpad scroll doesn't work
I have a VAIO windows 7 64 bit operating system. My scroll does not work for a while.I used to stroke the far-right edge of the touchpad for vertical scrolling and the bottom edge for horizontal but ...
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How can I make the mouse wheel button perform a double-click in windows 7?
I have a "generic" mouse, and like most mice these days, the wheel has a click action as well. My "Microsoft IntelliMouse 1.1A PS/2 Compatible" Mouse used to have software that would allow the wheel ...
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Enable wheel in mintty (cygwin) for vim [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Enable wheel in mintty for cygwin comands: less and man
How to enable the mouse wheel inside vim?
I'm using mintty and cygwin.
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Set mouse wheel scrolling direction in Mac OS X and Windows
Mouse wheels behave just the opposite in Windows and Mac OS X. When playing with a web page, the action that scrolls up in MS Windows actually scrolls down in Mac OS X.
Is setting in either OS ...
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How do you adjust the mouse wheel in Windows NT 4?
I need to adjust the number of lines that the window scrolls when using the mouse wheel manually in Windows NT 4. Any idea how to configure that?
Any registry hack?
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Microsoft Access SQL Editor - Enable Scroll Wheel
In the Microsoft Access 2003 SQL Editor, I want to use my mouse scroll wheel.
However, the only way the program seems to allow me to navigate is via keyboard.
How do I enable scroll wheel support in ...
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microsoft wireless mobile mouse 4000 wheel click problem! [closed]
when i click wheel button, i expect to close tabs, or open link new tab, but this mouse opening (alt+tab) running task dialog. what can i do? i suppose uninstall driver solving problem but this time ...
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Why does `less` not recognize the mouse wheel when stdin is a pipe?
I was wondering why my less sometimes does not recognize the mouse wheel (my terminal is Konsole). Now I've found a pattern: It seems to work whenever less's STDIN comes directly from the shell (zsh ...
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Configure Mouse Middle(Wheel) button to bring behind window in focus
In Ubuntu, whenever you press the middle scroll wheel of the mouse at top of a window, it brings the window immediately behind the current window into focus.
How can this be done in Windows 7?
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Mouse wheel works bad in some programs?
I have Microsoft Wireless Mouse 5000 connected to USB dongle by radio, along with Microsoft's keyboard, and USB dongle is connected to KVM into "keyboard" socket.
I have mouse wheel working badly in ...
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Have different setting for trackpad and mouse in Windows 7
I like to plug in my mouse into my laptop from time to time. However, the mouse then takes on all the settings of the trackpad (cursor speed, scroll speed, ...)
Is there a way to make the settings ...
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Mouse wheel doesn't scroll in windows 7 remote desktop
I recently upgraded to windows 7. I realized that the mouse scroll wheel no longer works in the remote desktop. The remote machine has been the same, so I bet the problem is on the client side.
I am ...
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cygwin > xterm > bash > less : MouseWheel scrolling not working
I am trying to get mousewheel scrolling to work in less, within an xterm in cygwin with XMing x-server and fvwm window manager !
I hope I make sense..
I have tried rxvt, urxvt, urxvt-X, aterm, mrxvt ...
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How do you remap the scroll wheel up and down actions of a Logitech G700 mouse?
I have a Logitech G700 mouse. I'd like to remap the scroll up and down actions of the scroll wheel to either a key press or macro. Is this possible using the SetPoint software or some other means?
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problem with desktop switching with mouse , ubuntu 9.04, lenovo thinkpad sl300
I turned off the visual effects on my laptop (system->preferences->appearance), and since then I can't switch between my desktops using the mouse wheel (but I can with key combination). While the ...
