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Windows 11 screen lock breaks Logitech mouse wheel

I have a Logitech MK295 keyboard and mouse. Actually I have tried 2 brand new ones out of the box. Whenever Windows 11 goes to a lock screen and is eventually released by pin or password, the scroll ...
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How to change mouse scrolling speed in Ubuntu?

I use Ubuntu 22.04. How to change mouse scrolling speed in Ubuntu? I went to mouse settings and I found a mouse speed option, but nothing for the mouse wheel scrolling.
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Bind scroll wheel to page up and down keys

I have followed these https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/11/how-to-bind-mouse-buttons-to-keyboard.html https://codepre.com/how-to-bind-mouse-buttons-to-keyboard-keys-or-commands-linux-uses-x11.html ...
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Click the scrollbar of browser by a button in keyboard

In Chrome or Firefox or Microsoft Edge, is there any way to map a keyboard button to "press the scroll bar"? In this way, I could just press a button and move the mouse to achieve the scroll ...
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How do I simulate a scroll wheel use on my Windows 7 laptop?

My laptop is a Windows 7 Lenovo 64-bit laptop with 2 GB RAM and it only has a touchpad.  How do I simulate a scroll wheel?
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How to disable default key action (horizontal scroll wheel) in xbindkeys?

I'm currently using horizontal scroll wheel (MX Master 3) with xbindkeys (~/.xbindkeysrc) to control volume on Pop OS 20.04 (~Ubuntu) but currently it activates horizontal scroll along also, and I don'...
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Change Windows 10 Calendar Scrollwheel Settings

I used to use the old Windows 7 system tray calendar on Windows 10, but that functionality has been disabled by recent updates. My main gripe with the Windows 10 calendar is that the scroll wheel ...
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Logitech B170 - scroll wheel doesn't work (Windows 10)

I have a Logitech B170 Wireless mouse which I use with my Windows 10 Laptop. I am not a fan of the scroll wheel, so I have never used the scroll wheel in this mouse or any other mouse ever. But there ...
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Can the scroll direction of the trackpad and the mouse/trackball be set differently in macOS?

On my MacBook Pro, I want to scroll direction on the trackpad to natural (two fingers swiping up to scroll down) but have the scroll action on my Kensington trackball be "natural to me" which is ...
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Mouse wheel pressing button when scrolling

I have a Promate Clix-7 mouse. I am having an issue where if I scroll down & up the wheel button "activates". I think it's because the wheel being too down, and it touching the sensor, but I'm not ...
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Can not scroll smoothly with mouse wheel [closed]

When I scroll anywhere (in webpages, games, IDEs, etc.) sometimes an opposite scrolling occur. OS: Windows 10 (64bit) Mouse: Trust GXT 152 Already cleaned my mouse and tried different ports. Also I ...
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Why does my Logitech mouse sometimes ignore the scroll wheel turning?

About a week ago my Logitech G502 Proteus's scroll wheel intermittently stopped scrolling correctly. It appears to happen in a pattern; so if I scroll up 50 times in a row, it will ignore the 10th, ...
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Mouse scrolling in Windows Terminal

I'm not actually sure whether this is the expected behavior or a bug of some sort. In the standard terminal in Windows 10 (cmd.exe), I can scroll using the mouse scroll wheel only when a subprocess ...
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Why does the mouse scroll speed go crazy after booting Windows, and why does unplugging it and plugging again fix the issue?

I'm using a Microsoft wireless keyboard+mouse combo and I mainly use Arch Linux. Whenever I boot MS Windows on my computer, when going back to Linux, my mouse scroll wheel is insanely fast. ...
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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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Inconsistent and erratic mouse wheel in Linux while moving the mouse pointer

I have Manjaro Linux in VirtualBox, and in some applications such as the terminal the mouse wheel seems not to register many of the scroll ticks. Sometimes it scrolls fine, then suddenly it scrolls ...
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how to specifically control the smoothness of scrolling in Windows?

There are some applications like Sublime Text, Notepad++, or Netbeans on which the touch-pad scrolling of the laptop doesn't work effectively. If I try to scroll using the two finger touch, the whole ...
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No smooth scrolling on Windows 10

For some reason, smooth scrolling (using the mouse wheel) was replaced on Windows 10 (in my case, at least) with scrolling of entire page and sometimes even more. I see this on those apps for now: ...
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How to use the mouse to scroll up/down in MacOS Yosemite Terminal when vi is open

In MacOS X, pre-Yosemite versions I could open vi in the Terminal window and scroll up and down the history of the Terminal. The vi lines in this case did not scroll. To scroll I used the mouse-pad'...
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Firefox - Why is scroll button opening the last closed tab?

Prior to reformatting, when I scroll-clicked the title bar outside of current tabs, a new tab would be spawned and I'd be brought to my new tab page. After reformatting, this functionality has changed,...
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Logitech mouse - scrolling

I have Logitech Anywhere mouse MX. When I try to scroll up, I can do it, but after that, webpage (or document) automaticly scrolles down for one line. The same thing happens when I try to scroll down. ...
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In Windows Chrome, how can I reduce the scroll wheel speed, including in the developer tools?

Running Windows 7 and Chrome. For some reason, one tick of my scroll wheel jumps something like 20-30 lines at one time, far too fast. It's most annoying when trying to use the developer tools, ...
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Why don't touchpads have scroll wheels? [closed]

I was using Google Maps on my laptop today and a question occurred to me: why doesn't the touchpad have a scroll wheel next to it? There's a ton of wasted space each side of the touchpad so space isn'...
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Scroll wheel in Character Map

Why can't we use the scroll wheel in the Windows Character Map? In every version of Windows I couldn't ever scroll with the scroll wheel of the mouse, but it's the only program that behaves that way, ...
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Mouse scroll wheel is intermitent with Win7 Remote Desktop session with Debian machine

I have a Debian Linux machine which I access with Windows 7 Remote Desktop Connection (RDP). Frequently the mouse scroll wheel quits in the remote desktop session. If I go back to the Windows desktop ...
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how to swap scroll with right click in a specific application?

my mouse's scroll is not working well.when I push it down, It sometimes not works, sometimes works twice. What I want is a tool, to swap middle mouse button(pushing scroll down) with right click ...
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Doesn't "scrollwheelup/down" mapping work in gvim on windows OS?

I tried it all ways to make the mouse buttons ScollWheelUp/Down work in my vim. Checked in all other plugins if there is a conflicting map, no conflicting map. Tried this: :verbose map <...
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Is the distance traveled while scrolling independent of screen resolution?

Suppose you press the arrow keys for scrolling or use the mouse wheel. If you just press an arrow key once or respectively scroll only one 'tick' with the mouse wheel - does the distance which is ...
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Logitech G35 Headset volume wheel has more effect when used slowly

My headset has a volume wheel on the side, and when I slide it up or down quickly it changes the volume quite gradually: while watching the Logitech Gaming Software's headset tab, it takes about 16 ...
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How to disable scrollwheel? [duplicate]

How can I completely disable the scroll wheel on my mouse on a Windows 7 system? This would be system wide not just for a single application.
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Can the scrolling increment that is used to zoom in/out in Visio be changed?

When I'm using CTRL + mouse wheel to zoom in/out in Visio, the jump in percentage of zoom is ludicrous. It jumps from 50% to 132% and then to 397%. It seems like there should be some middle ground ...
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Logitech Anywhere MX mouse scrolls up a little after I scroll down and vice-versa

I am using Windows 7 x64 and have installed the SetPoint Settings software and have specified OS implementation. I have also unchecked the smooth scrolling. How to fix this problem, so the response ...
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How to change the step of volume scroll in VLC?

When I roll the mouse scroll wheel in VLC, the volume changes. But it changes too rapidly: like 83%-70%-58% Can I change the step used like to 1-5% at a time?
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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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How do you disable autoscrolling? [duplicate]

On a page with scrollbars, when I press the middle mouse button, I get a "tool" to scroll the page by moving my mouse. How do you completely disable this functionality? I only activate it by mistake ...
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How to make the scroll wheel to affect always what's under the mouse pointer? [duplicate]

It happens to me so many times that I roll the scroll wheel over some scrollable element, but the thing DOES NOT SCROLL. What's worse, something else on another part of the screen may scroll. I know ...
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Scroll "less" output using scroll wheel on Mac OS X

How can I enable the scrolling of "less" output (rather than the terminal window itself) using the scroll wheel on OSX?
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When editing a presentation in powerpoint, is there any way to scroll continuously between the slides?

Pretty much the title. I don't like the way that a single scroll wheel 'notch' moves an entire slide. I would rather scroll continuously between slides if possible. Maybe I'm wrong and it would be ...
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Virtualbox horizontal wheel-scroll becomes alt-vertical-wheel-scroll in Windows guest

I have a Windows 7 and Windows XP guests on Virtualbox 4.1.20 r80170 on 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 host, and when in the Windows guest, a horizontal mouse wheel-scroll becomes the alt-vertical-scroll event (...
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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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Horizontal scrolling in Visual Studio 2010

Does anyone know if there is a hot key I can press to activate horizontal scrolling with my mouse wheel in Visual Studio 2010? e.g. Pressing 'ctrl' while scrolling the mouse wheel would scroll the ...
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Scroll wheel causes browsers + Windows explorer to go back

I use Windows 7 on a VirtualBox VM on a Mac. Lately, when I'm using any browser (IE9, Chrome or FireFox or even Windows Explorer), use of the scroll wheel followed by any movement of the mouse cursor ...
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Microsoft mouse makes an additional jump scroll after scrolling

When I do some scrolling with the middle button, often the page suddenly makes another jump and scrolls down after a short delay. This is very annoying if you just fixated on a sentence and the page ...
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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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Enable wheel in mintty for cygwin comands: less and man

I'm using mintty and cygwin. How to can I enable the mouse wheel inside less and man?
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Getting Synaptics trackpad to send actual scroll-wheel events

I have a laptop (a Samsung Series 9) with a Synaptics trackpad, and I have Windows XP on it. One of the nice features of this trackpad is that it allows you to scroll by placing two fingers on the ...
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On Windows 7, is there any way to make the scrollwheel's focus follow the mouse?

On Mac OS X I can mouse over something (without clicking on it or giving it complete focus) and use the scroll wheel to scroll it. On Windows (7 at least) which I'm forced to use in my new job, it ...
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Mouse periodically locks up when using scroll wheel on mouse

I have an end user whose computer locks up occasionally when using their mouse scroll wheel to scroll up and down on a website. Has anybody ever seen this before? Any idea what it could be? My ...
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Smooth scrolling for vim in Mac Terminal/iTerm?

Is it possible to get smooth scrolling (using the mouse scroll wheel or macbook touchpad) within a terminal on Mac OSX (Lion)? Furthermore, could I do this within vim? I find that smooth scrolling ...
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Why is KatMouse scrolling sideways once first before scrolling down?

I've installed the latest version of KatMouse mostly for the ability to scroll the window under the cursor (as opposed to the window with keyboard focus) with the scroll wheel on my basic wired ...
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