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Windows 10: Enable system-wide smooth scrolling

This question is a bit different from others that I have found, because the solutions to them have always been "change the scroll setting to 1 line at a time". I won't be satisfied by that. I don't ...
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Switching left and right mouse button functions without switching mousepad buttons

I'm left handed and thus I've switched the functions of the left and right mouse buttons so that the right button is the primary. However, I find that when I'm not using the mouse and thus need to use ...
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Middle mouse button not working in Windows 10

I recently purchased a new laptop and the middle mouse button no longer works. It is a Logitech M310 that works fine on another laptop, so I know the hardware is working. I checked the Mouse settings ...
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How can I make the mouse cursor render with software instead of hardware?

I use a program called f.lux to change the display color. However, the color does not affect the mouse: leaving it an ugly bright white. A partial fix is to set the registry value of mouse trails to -...
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Way too fast scrolling in Emacs on Win10

My question is almost the same as this one: Way too fast scrolling in Emacs on OSX I am using Emacs 26.1 on a Windows 10 machine. The scrolling speed when using the trackpad is much higher than when ...
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CPU Whine with USB mouse inserted while on battery

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E520 that emits a high pitched whine from the top lefthand area of the keyboard when a 2.4ghz wireless USB mouse is inserted. The sound is a lot louder while on battery ...
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Bluetooth mouse wake up lag

I bet this same question was asked a billion of times throughout the internet, however I was not able to find any workable solution for it. So, the problem is in the wake-up lag on Bluetooth mouse. In ...
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Reverse horizontal scroll in chrome

I have an issue regarding my Logitech MX Master mouse which have a dedicated horizontal scroll wheel. I've created a file in /usr/share/x11/xorg.conf.d called 52-mouse-map.conf which have the ...
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Windows 10 file explorer randomly corrupted since update

Yesterday suddenly my windows file explorer looked strange (see screenshot) and even the behaviour of my mouse changed, where I always had to double click to open something, now it opens up with one ...
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Notepad++ disable document switcher mouse shortcut

Notepad++ has this feature where you can right click + mousewheel to scroll between documents. My problem is that I hit this all the time by accident resulting in minor (yet cumulative) annoyances ...
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Bluetooth not detecting any devices in Windows 7

My Lenovo ThinkPad E320 Laptop running Windows 7 64bit has recently been refusing to detect any Bluetooth devices. I have tried to connect, using 'Add devices' under 'devices and printers' to two ...
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Disable mouse movment wakeup but there is no power management tab in device manager for the HID compliant mouse

I am able to wakeup my sleeping computer by moving the mouse. How do I disable that? (I am not going to turn the mouse off manually every time I sleep the computer or disconnect it or try to have it ...
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Microsoft Excel: how to disable the "two click" requirement when Excel window doesn't have focus?

In Microsoft Excel, all versions as far as I can tell (office 2007 to 2019), implement window focus differently than any other Windows apps: When Excel does not have focus (i.e. you're using another ...
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How to configure Windows 10 for "keyboard focus follows mouse" without clicking into the window and without raising the window?

The context This is using Windows 10, Version 10.0.16299 Build 16299 The question What I need is the window to remain in the background (perhaps covered up with other windows), but when I move the ...
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Program side mouse buttons without additional software?

I have an LG 603 mouse at home and I use the Logitech gaming software to switch my side buttons to copy and paste. I want to use this as my work mouse and retain the copy/paste ability. Is there a ...
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chrome double click selection characters

In chrome, double clicking by default selects characters with certain delimiters. For example, a_b will be entirely selected but a-b won't be entirely selected. Is there a way to add the minus/...
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How to modify mouse acceleration curve on Windows to make it more MacOS-like?

This question is a reverse of Make Mac OS X mouse acceleration more Windows-like . I used to work on MacOS and feel its mouse acceleration fits me better. Now I tried to get myself used to it on ...
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Mouse pointer does not show on mouse entering/hovering/focus over hyper-v guest OS window

I'm running Hyper-V on a Windows 10 1703 system. My Virtual Machine guest operating system is CentOS 7.2 and is generation 2. I have integrated services installed (see image below). I have a four ...
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Mouse lag/stutter playing games in Windows 10

Since I got this computer: i5 7600K 3.80Ghz 16 RAM Single channel 1069 Mhz STRIX Z270E mobo PG348Q Monitor GTX 1080 Zotac 500 GB SSD Western Digital I haven't been able to play smooth any games with ...
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Sticky corners in Windows 7?

I couldn't google anything about it. Afaik, Windows 8+ has a sticky corners feature where, while using multiple monitors, if the user moves the mouse from one monitor to another at the top or bottom ...
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VMware Player disables the numpad on the host

I have a Linux Mint host and a Windows 7 Pro guest OS in Vmware Player 12 with VMware additions are installed. Each time the mouse and the keyboard are "grabbed" by the virtual machine, at the moment ...
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Extra mouse buttons don't work with Remote Desktop (Windows)

I use Remote Desktop on my home PC to connect to two different PCs at the office. On one of the remote PCs, my extra mouse buttons work, and on the other remote PC, the extra buttons sadly do nothing. ...
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Start blank screensaver, disable mouse to wake

I'm looking for a way to turn off my monitor screen and disable mouse input from switching it back on (while staying logged in) I need to use the screensaver function as the default built in screen-...
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Reverse scrolling with Synergy from Mac to Windows

I have my Mountain Lion MacBook Pro and my Windows 7 Toshiba laptop connected via Synergy with the Mac serving as the server, and the PC acting as the client. I have an external mouse connected to the ...
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USB mouse disconnecting and reconnecting in windows and linux

I have a problem similar to what is described at "Why is my USB mouse disconnecting and reconnecting randomly and often?" except is is happening in both Windows 7 and Linux (Ubuntu 12/04TLS, fully ...
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How can I use a laptop pointing stick for scrolling up/down?

My laptop has a touchpad but it's not multi-touch so I cannot use it to scroll up/down with two finger gestures. I was wondering if I could use the "pointing stick" in the keyboard to do the scrolling ...
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dual-monitor "infinite desktop" for the cursor

I have a dual-screen Windows 7 set-up. The monitors are set side-by side, and I have it configured so that I can move the cursor directly from one screen to the other. i.e. The right edge of Monitor 1 ...
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Cursor crawls by itself. What should I do?

I am using Windows XP on a desktop computer. I've got an optical mouse. I got tired, it's so annoying!!! The computer mouse is stalled, but the cursor is slowly crawling to the upper-left corner of ...
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Windows 7 scroll wheel settings are lost after resume from sleep

After my Windows 7 resumes from sleep, the mouse scroll wheel settings that specify the number of lines are always set to 1. I have this set to 5, but it changes to 1 after every resume from sleep. ...
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Windows touchpad-like smooth mouse scrolling

Is there a way to enable "real" smooth scrolling system-wide in Windows (11)? I just got Logitech MX Master 3s with a free rotating scroll wheel, but so far smooth scrolling only works in ...
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Windows 11 Laptop is woken up by USB wired mouse despite mouse's ability to wake being disabled and wake_armed showing "NONE". How to fix?

We have a custom Windows 11 laptop that has an external Microsoft USB wired mouse attached to it with the full Microsoft drivers for it installed. In Device Manager, the mouse's ability to wake up the ...
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Unable to use mouse/keyboard through VNC Viewer

I just installed VNC Server on my remote server and ensured that the viewer mode is off. Still, the keyboard and mouse inputs are somehow disabled in the VNCViewer. Access from: Windows 10 Remote ...
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Wireless mouse semi-randomly disconnecting in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

My wireless mouse semi-randomly disconnects when I don't want it to. It will disconnect for around a second before connecting again. I am running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Using the MX Ergo. The mouse was ...
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How to increase mouse pointer size in X410 on WSL2?

I've got X410 running on my Windows 10 system. I've got a 4k screen on the laptop and another 4k attached to it. I've bumped up the Windows cursor sizes just to make it easy to find my mouse. However ...
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Windows remote from Mac mouse button issues

I'm using Microsoft RDC to remote into my work PC from my MacBook. I recently got a Logitech MX Master 3 mouse and have been running into some issues with the button/gesture mapping within remote. ...
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Wake from sleep with external Keyboard or mouse after these have been unplugged and replugged on Windows 10

I am working with two computers, an Asus laptop with Windows 10 and a Dell Optiflex Desktop PC with Ubuntu 20.04. The Asus laptop is also used as if it was a a desktop computer, i.e. the lid is always ...
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How do I reconnect my Bluetooth mouse to Windows 10 after pairing it to another device, without un-pairing and re-pairing?

I know this is possible on Linux and Android. Just select the device in your paired device list while the mouse is in pairing mode and it will re-pair, even after previously being connected to ...
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Trying to keybind spacebar to a mouse button on Ubuntu with no luck

I've tried xInput and AutoKey, but xInput only seems to allow me to bind mouse buttons to mouse buttons or keyboard buttons to keyboard buttons. For example, I managed to bind my middle mouse button ...
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Windows 10 laptop does not wake with external keyboard and mouse when lid closed

I use a Windows 10 laptop connected to an external monitor, as well as a wireless USB keyboard and mouse. I have configured the laptops's lid so that is does nothing when opened or closed. However, I ...
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How to set scrolling speed of vim like set mouse=a when mouse=v?

I wonder how it's possible to set scrolling speed. As is, when I scroll with my mouse in command or edit mode, it moves only one line at a time. I prefer to move by example 3 line at a time. (speed ...
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Mouse cursor appears during Games

from 2 days this problem happening. during game-play(windowed or full-screen) suddenly mouse cursor appears(with a sound notification but nothing shows on the notification area) on the screen and the ...
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Mouse weirdness

I was playing in Blender and did something that froze up the system. (I think I set the samples rate too high). Eventually, I had to reboot the system as it was completely frozen. When I restarted (...
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Map Two Finger Tap Middle Click touchpad Windows 10 Dell XPS 9360

Using two finger tap for right click seems superfluous on a windows built machine, as I already have a right click button on the track pad. I am certain it is possible to use two finger tap for the ...
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WMWare Player 12.5: forward and back keys of Logitech mouse not working

I am currently using VMWare Player 12 (free edition) on Windows 10 Pro x64 as host and guest system, and a Logitech M510 mouse as input device. My problem is that inside the guest-system, my "side" ...
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How to get a normal context menu on webpages that use custom context menus?

How do I get a normal context menu on a webpage that uses custom context menu(s)? For example, Gmail uses custom context menus: If I want to get a regular browser/system right-click menu, how would ...
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More Precise Windows Sensitivity Multiplier

I'm trying to set my mouse sensitivity more precisely. I want to set it to exactly 0.7x, but Windows does not have that option Currently, these are the sensitivity options in Windows: 1/11 - 0....
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Moving mouse through multiple monitors on Windows 7

It is hard to explain so I have uploaded this image: Can I move the mouse between monitors in "circles"? Let's say I want to move my mouse from A to A, B to B, C to C and in other directions too.
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Why is my computer misinterpreting the behavior of the scroll wheel?

Short version: When I scroll up or down, it usually scrolls the way it should, but intermittently it scrolls the other way. Why? I'm using a wireless mouse on my laptop (Lenovo, Windows 7). When I ...
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Mouse disappears after unlocking/waking after Windows 10 upgrade

Ok, thus far, I haven't been able to find my specific issue online, so I'm turning to you guys. I recently upgraded from Windows 8.1 to 10 (pro). Sometimes (not every time) when I unlock or wake up ...
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tmux mouse passthrough mode?

How do you make mouse-wheel scrolling in tmux work with programs such as less and man? It will work properly with emacs and vi/vim in xterm mouse mode, but less doesn't. EDIT Is there a way to have ...
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