Scrolling is the act of moving vertically or horizontally across visual data to view something that normally would not be in view with the current viewing mechanism.
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Don't change the cursor position when scrolling in Emacs
Is there a way to stop Emacs from automatically moving my text-cursor position (aka, point) while I'm scrolling? I keep losing my location and marks with this annoying behavior.
I tested the ...
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Some PowerPoint 2007 slides have a tiny scrollbar and scroll a long time with mouse/mousewheel
Seemingly out of the blue, slides 5 through 8 on a PPT I was working on starting exhibiting very strange behaviour. On slides 1-4, and 9-40, the vertical scroll bar is a reasonable size. When I ...
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Fujitsu LifeBook A531 laptop touchpad scrolling
Is it possible to scroll using your touchpad on this laptop? All my older laptops let you scroll in some way but I must be missing something on my Fujitsu.
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How to use 3 different possible combinations in AutoHotkey?
I want to use these three hotkeys:
- left shift and wheeldown to scroll down twice
- left control and wheel down to scroll down 4 times
- left shift and left control and wheeldown to scroll down 8 ...
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How to have space bar scroll half the page instead
Can the space bar scroll behavior be modified in all apps (such as Firefox, pdf viewers, etc.)? It's dizzying to have space bar scroll the full page -- I often lose track of what I'm reading.
I ...
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Magic Trackpad clicks and points, but doesn't scroll
I just got a new-to-me Magic Trackpad, but after pairing it and adjusting the settings in System Preferences, I can't get it to do the two-finger scrolling gesture.
So far, I've uninstalled USB ...
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VIM - Only last line updates with scroll?
Searched around and couldn't find anything but cheat sheets for commands, perhaps my Google-fu is lacking these days.
Any guidance here is much appreciated. I've never seen this before, not sure what ...
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All the sliders just automatically go DOWN [closed]
Argh! My sliders (not just the volume ones but every slider you could possibly encounter) just keep automatically going DOWN. This is also happening while I play games that you can scroll in and out ...
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Most pager utility in Tail mode does not always tail from end of file
I use many most sessions in tmux sessions on a daily basis, and in general I love it. However I've noticed some files never seem to want to tail properly (using F once loaded in most); I can skip to ...
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key repeat when scrolling in tmux
When using tmux, I would like to keep the PgUp/Down key pressed to scroll quickly between pages. I press Ctrl-b PgUp to enter copy mode and to scroll the page, but if I keep it pressed, nothing ...
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How to fix scroll in LOGITECH MX518 mouse?
Mouse was working fine for more than a year but than suddenly the scroll started to behave weirdly. Like having it's own life it started to move up and down quickly making any computer activity ...
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Synaptics touchpad stops working randomly
I have two laptops. One dell Vostro and other Vaio Z. Both have Synaptics (Yes, I have checked, and the original drivers were from Synaptics as well). On both laptops, the touchpad scrolling stops ...
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Accidentally (?) disabled touchpad scrolling
I have a Lenovo Ideapad Z580 with Windows 8, and I was annoyed by the charms bar popping up every time I was putting my finger on the touchpad from the right side, so I applied the registry changes ...
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How to read ebooks in continuous scrolling mode and save highlights?
I'm looking for a way to manage my academic workflow for reading e-books in .epub or .mobi formats on OSX.
My requirements:
- continuous scrolling mode
- ability to highlight text (e.g. in yellow, ...
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Erratic Mouse Scroll wheel
The scroll wheel seems to malfunction. As I scroll eg down the page will move down, suddenly move up.
It also looks as if it does not scoll a consistent distance. Sometimes one line, sometimes more.
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Natural Scrolling on Trackpad and Reversed Scrolling on Mouse
I'm using a MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.7.5. I recently got a wireless mouse to use for photoshop, gaming, etc.
I like my trackpad set to natural scrolling but I'm used to the scroll wheel on a ...
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Global scroll acceleration in Windows
Is there a way to add smoothing and acceleration to scrolling in Windows. Cruising through pages by scrolling faster beats having to scroll a hundred times, and is the default behaviour of the mouse ...
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How to scroll in browser with Logitech Trackman Marble?
I have a Logitech Trackman Marble and I really love it. I spend a lot of time on web browser and code editors. I was wondering if there could be a feature like when I press Option Key the trackball ...
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How can I make the Page Up and Page Down keys scroll a full screenful in browsers?
For as long as I can remember I have been frustrated by the browser behavior whereby using the Page Up and Page Down keys on the keyboard doesn't scroll the web page by a full screenful. Whenever I am ...
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Missed scrolls in Gedit and nautilus
After I type anything in GEdit, it ignores the next 6 ticks of my scrollwheel in a direction. If I scroll 6 times up, it will then let me scroll up, but not down. To scroll down I will have to scroll ...
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How do I scroll multiple lines (thus faster) in Adobe Acrobat Reader?
When I scroll a PDF with the mouse (two-finger gesture on a laptop to be more precise) the scrolling is way too slow. I am not referring to rendering issues nor some kind of lag. Simply put, the ...
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Smooth scrolling on everything scrollable in windows 7
Is it possible to have every thing that can be scrolled (Office, Windows Explorer etc..) to be smooth scrolled such as in Firefox or in Chrome (when enabled)? Would this be through a mouse driver or ...
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Touchpad scrolling is disabled on Gateway laptop with Windows 8
Somehow my touchpad scrolling got turned off and I can't figure out how to turn it back on.
I tried the instructions for Windows 7, but the options are different in Windows 8.
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How to configure arrow key scroll step in Firefox
I upgraded from Firefox 3.6 to Firefox 19 (!!! how do they manage to release sixteen major versions in just three years?), and now find that the arrow keys scroll the page by much more than they used ...
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Disabling horizontal scrolling using mouse wheel
I am using Windows 7 x64 on an iMac (via BootCamp) with the button-less Magic Mouse that comes with the iMac. I would like to disable the horizontal scrolling that happens when you move slightly the ...
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VirtualBox Scoll Up/Down Guest Terminal
I have a FreeBSD guest on an XP host.
BSD has no GUI, so it just boots up to the terminal. The output of most commands is more than is visible on the screen, but I can't scroll up/down in the ...
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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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Free panning/scrolling on LibreOffice Draw
LibreOffice Draw allows me to scroll vertically or horizontally using my mouse as follows:
Scroll Wheel: Scroll vertically
Shift + Scroll Wheel: Scroll horizontally
My question is: Is there any way ...
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Why don't modern programs use scroll lock and pause keys anymore? [closed]
On the top right, there are two keys that I don't use at all:
Scroll Lock
Pause | Break
And two more that I rarely use:
Caps Lock
Num Lock (I leave it on most of the time)
Why do they still ...
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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 ...
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Excel 2010 - Freeze column to both horizontal and vertical scroll
I'm familiar with basic freeze pane functionality. If I freeze the first column by Freeze Pane > Freeze First Column, it works against a horizontal scroll, but not a vertical scroll.
I'd like for ...
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On Windows 8 how an I adjust the touchscreen scrolling momentum
I have two Windows 8 devices -- A Surface RT and a Toshiba all-in-one. On the Surface if I do a fast swipe from right-to-left the screen scrolls quickly and continues to scroll after I've lifted my ...
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Is there a way to allow continuous scrolling in Adobe Reader?
I am having to read through a MASSIVE (1000+ page) PDF specification in Adobe Reader X (version 10). It has always bugged me that if you scroll to the edge of a page, the Reader automatically jumps ...
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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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Logitech mouse m705 misses scrolls
I've found a very annoying bug with my logitech marathon m705 mouse: sometimes ( like 1-2 of 10 ) it misses wheel scrolls. That doesn't depend on whether I use hyperscroll mode or not.
Neither it ...
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Windows 8: Enable smooth scrolling
Does Windows 8 have a smooth scrolling feature?
I have a Chrome extension that works for the browser but was hoping to implement it everywhere.
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How To Solve Intermittent Scrolling Caused By Keyboard That Can Be Stopped Only For A Short Time?
Been using rarely my Lenovo G560 laptop and after long time of not using it I have noticed that touchpad stops responding after short while. Incidentally while trying to find the cause, after pointing ...
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Windows 8 tile scroll counter-intuitive
I can do a 2-finger swipe on my trackpad to scroll the tiles left and right in Windows 8 Modern UI, but every time I do it, it scrolls in the opposite direction I'd expect. Is there a way to reverse ...
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Why does Adobe Acrobat scroll so slowly, and what can I do about it?
I often am forced to view long PDF documents either in browser or out of browser. When I'm forced to use such documents, it's always frustrating, because whenever I scroll the document, the viewer ...
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Windows scroll without focus
So I have a windows 8 laptop at home, and a windows 7 laptop at work. Both have synaptics touchpads. The problem is that on the work laptop, I can scroll any window regardless of which one is ...
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Horizontal scrolling not working in Chrome with Sharkoon Draconia mouse
I have recently upgraded to a Sharkoon Draconia gaming mouse from a standard Logitech mouse. Previously by tilting the scroll wheel left or right I was able to scroll horizontally in Chrome with my ...
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Horizontal scroll controls volume?
Does someone know how I can use autohotkey to replace the horizontal screen function of my gaming mouse with a volume up and down feature? Most people in these forums are trying to enable horizontal ...
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PDF scrolling on Windows 7
Sometimes, when I scroll a document (most often a PDF) using the two-finger method on my laptop's trackpad, after a while, the scroller starts jittering and jumping pages. At this point, the pinch ...
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How can I enable touch-like scrolling in Firefox or Chrome?
I want to enable point-and-grab scrolling on Linux in Chrome or Firefox. Is there an extension, script or setting that enables this?
For an example of what I mean, take a look at most touch tablet ...
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Scroll wheel rubber strip detachment
The rubber friction strip on the scroll wheel of my Microsoft 4000 wireless mouse has broken free from the inner hard plastic hub. It has stretched to the point that I do not believe it could be ...
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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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Removing “snap to column” in Excel 2007
I have a column in Excel 2007 whose width is set to 200. This means that it is longer than the width of my screen. If I scroll the worksheet from left to right, it will move column by column, which ...
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How to scroll the terminal emulator window in smaller steps using the keyboard?
How could I scroll up and down the bash shell window (without the mouse or scroll bars, just using the keyboard)?
Shift+PageUp and Shift+PageDown acts like page up and page down.
But how could one ...
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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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How to get back two finger scrolling on HP notebook?
I am using the HP Pavilion 14-B030TU Notebook with Windows 8. I have had it for 5 days now and the two finger scrolling has been working for the first 4 days. Recently, I had to do a Windows Update as ...
