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Inverting direction of mouse scroll wheel

Is there a way to make a mouse scroll wheel invert its direction? I'd like to scroll upwards and have that action scroll downwards and vice-versa. There is no setting on the Mouse control panel that ...
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remedy for a no scroll wheel trackball?

I am thinking to buy an trackball and my option is Logitech trackman marble. But then I found that there is no scroll wheel. How do you tackle with that? Do I definitely want to buy a trackball with ...
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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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How to prevent the page from scrolling when scrolling inside a scroll box and hitting bottom of scroll box

Firefox has this "feature" that scrolls the entire page once I hit the bottom of a scroll box (either iframe or one created using the css overflow property). This only happen when I scroll using the ...
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How do I horizontally scroll in Notepad++?

How to horizontally scroll in Notepad++? I know the way by dragging horizontal scroll bar, but I would like more convenient way: Scrolling with keyboard Scrolling with mouse wheel while holding Shift ...
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How to invert scroll wheel in certain applications using AutoHotkey?

I want to be able to modify the scrolling/middle click behavior for individual apps on Windows 7, so that the scroll to zoom direction is always consistent across apps. This script makes the middle ...
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Wireless Mouse Behaving Improperly

I recently received a new wireless mouse (Microsoft Wireless Mobile Mouse 4000) for my laptop for Christmas. I liked it a great deal, until I recently began working in Adobe Flash again, and started ...
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Mouse scroll does not work

The scroll in my mouse does not work at all in any PC. Looking at the previous questions here, it does appear that is broken. Is there anyway that I can find out whether it is really broken - run ...
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How do you disable mouse scroll wheel acceleration in Mac OS?

Under Windows and Linux, the mouse scroll wheel seems to be linear. Under Mac OS the scroll wheel some sort of acceleration which means it either goes too slow or too fast.
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How can I disable the mouse scroll wheel in Windows Vista

In Windows Vista, I have tried to set the setting 'the following number of lines at a time' to zero. I assumed my scroll wheel would not scroll anymore. But it still works. I'm trying to disable the ...
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Shell copy print without need to scroll up

You know when you do a command on terminal, and it print many lines, and you want to copy-paste some lines to use. So, the proceed is: 1- do the command on terminal 2- scroll-up till you ...
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How to disable horizontal scrolling within virtualbox on Ubuntu guest, Windows 7 host?

I am using Windows 7 as Host, Ubuntu Karmic as guest OS with guest tools installed and I get an annoying glitch when switching from host to the guest machine: Vertical scrolling switches to horizontal!...
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How to assign commands or keystrokes to the mouse scroll wheel(linux)?

I have a lil' problem with a new project. I'd like to find out how to set the ability to change to the next track in a playlist by using ongly the scroll wheel of a standard usb mouse. The objective ...
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hotkey for scrollwheel

I'm running Ubuntu on a Thinkpad with a "nipple thingy mouse" and would love to have a way to make super-up and super-down send scrollwheel events. any ideas? Really I'm looking for a way to ...
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How do I disable mouse scroll wheel under Ubuntu

In Ubuntu 9.04, I am looking for a way to disable my mouses scroll so that the mouse works like an old fashioned 3-button mouse without the scroll functionality. Any ideas on how to do this?
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Mouse wheel not working in firefox but only on one display

I have multiple displays on a windows XP box by using two video cards. My scrollwheel does not work in firefox, but only for a specific display! This problem is specific to firefox, as outlook and ...
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Horizontal scrolling shortcut in Linux

In Os X, I can hold Shift while using the scroll wheel on the mouse to scroll horizontally instead of vertically. Is there a way to do something similar in Linux?
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Horizontal scrolling shortcut in Windows

In Os X, I can hold Shift while using the scroll wheel on the mouse to scroll horizontally instead of vertically. Is there a way to do something similar in Windows?
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google maps and mouse scroll wheel setting

Is there a way to change the behavior of the mouse scroll wheel in google maps (in a normal browser window)? I have a "Mighty Mouse" on my most of my systems, and the logical behavior would be that ...
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