Questions tagged [scrolling]
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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Pass mouse events through tmux
I have noticed that scrolling in tmux is a hazzle and was wondering if it was possible to have tmux pass them along to the application or terminal.
I may be understanding things wrong here but I have ...
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How to make mouse wheel scroll the less pager using bash and gnome-terminal?
I have two computers with the latest Fedora. On the first, I'm using zsh and the mouse wheel can be used with the less pager within gnome-terminal to scroll the pager.
On the second, I use bash and ...
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AutoHotkey scrolling & middle click & mouse acceleration
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Assume a Windows 7 machine, especially a laptop.
No mouse driver allows holding down the right mouse button and moving the mouse to scroll, and yet retain the right mouse button ...
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How can I invert touchpad scroll direction on Windows 10 on my Asus laptop?
I just switched to Windows 10 on my ASUS N550JV and installed related drivers from the support page of ASUS. The touchpad works great, but for some reason the direction of scrolling on touchpad is ...
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Chrome - How to disable scroll over tabs
I use a laptop. Not a mac, but with a multitouchpad so I scroll down and right click with 2 fingers still.
I hate the fact that if I move too much my fingers over tabs, the scroll will but activated ...
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How to disable the middle button scrolling in Chrome
When I press middle mouse button, it opens:
It is so difficult to control the scrolling. Is there any way to disable this?
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Looking for an application that scrolls or pans netbook screens running Windows
I'm looking for a Windows 7 and XP compatible Windows desktop panning/scrolling tool.
This is to solve a problem where some applications, for example MSN, have settings/preference Windows that are ...
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Spyder - touchpad scroll does not work
I use the scroll function with my mouse and it works fine. But either in script, or in terminal sections of Spyder, I can't use the touchpad for scrolling. I do not experience any problems with my ...
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How to take a screenshot that includes a scrolling element within a web page in Firefox?
I need to take a screenshot of an entire webpage. The trick is that I need the screenshot to include the entire contents of a single element that does not fit in the screen.
It is a single ...
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Scroll down half the screen size in Firefox
Is it possible to have the spacebar not scroll down the entire page in Firefox? Scrolling one line at a time (with the down arrow) is very slow, but scrolling the entire screen (with spacebar) sets me ...
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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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How can I still see the 'man' text after I quit man?
I typically use tcsh or bash and often want to use 'man' to review a command's options. Currently when I quit man or ctrl-C, the man text disappears and I see the scrollback buffer that was there ...
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how to make less pager respond to scroll wheel and not clear the screen
I know about answers like how-to-make-mouse-wheel-scroll-the-less-pager-using-bash-and-gnome-terminal, which is to remove the -X flag from the $LESS environment variable. But I would like to do both ...
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OSX Lion: Can I use "classic" mousewheel scrolling but keep "natural" trackpad scrolling?
I recently upgraded from OSX Snow Leopard to OSX Lion version 10.7.1. So far, I'm enjoying the "natural" scrolling when using my trackpad. However, when scrolling with my mouse wheel, I'm having ...
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How to enable "scroll to click" in Windows XP?
Mac OS X has spoiled me with the ability to scroll to any point I click on a scrollbar. In Windows XP, I cannot find a native option to enable this same behavior.
For example, if I'm viewing a ...
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Microsoft wireless mouse scroll speed too high
I am using arch linux.
I have a new microsoft wireless mouse which scrolls(with the middle scroll wheel) too fast.
I don't use kde or gnome but openbox and sometimes xmonad. I want to know how I can ...
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Jumpy scrolling behavior using Chromium with my touchpad hardware buttons
I am experiencing very jumpy scrolling in Chromium. When use my touchpad hardware buttons to click anywhere on a page, and then use two fingers to scroll, the scrolling gesture will cause Chromium to ...
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Get two-finger scroll on Windows laptop touchpad (like on macbook)?
I have a Dell Latitude laptop. Scrolling using the touchpad is possible by sliding along the right (or bottom) side of the touchpad. This doesn't work too well for me. Is it possible to configure the ...
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Magic Mouse on Windows Vista machine
i just got a magic mouse for my vista basic dell laptop.
i installed the 32bit driver for it by following uneasysilence instruction.
i have basic functions like left and right click.
i read some ...
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How can I enable two finger scrolling on Synaptic TouchPad in Windows 10?
I have Dell XPS 17 702X notebook with on board Synaptic TouchPad.
I recently updated Dell licensed Windows 7 to Windows 10 with only issue to get work WiFi driver to be able to receive other via ...
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How to make text run on image? [closed]
I have a photo and a text page. I want to make a video with a background image that I have and the text will run on that photo. Please help me with ffmpeg
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How do I set a column not to scroll till it encounters a value in Microsoft Excel?
I have a table like as attached (similar, but on a much bigger scale):
I want to set it up such that when I scroll down column B, cell A2 with the value "A" remains displayed at the top, until the ...
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How can I scroll horizontally with my regular mouse?
Normally, I only need to scroll up and down, but when using software like trello, waffle.io, a text editor with large amounts of code on a single line, etc, I need to scroll horizontally.
Using the ...
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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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tmux: enable mouse scrolling in vim instead of history buffer
I have just started using tmux 1.8 recently, after working with screen for a while. After reading things here and there on the internet, I came up with following ~/.tmux.conf However when I open vim ...
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tmux - scroll up/down with shift + page up/down into a pane
I would like to be able to scroll up/down into a given pane with the same keybinding that xterm does, i.e SHIFT + Page Up/Down.
For example, if the tmux window is divided into 2 vertical panes, I ...
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How to make mouse wheel to scroll control under mouse cursor?
Currently, mouse wheel scrolls the control that has keyboard focus. That's not good when window has several scrollable controls, because I have to click control first and then scroll. And the same ...
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Disable scrolling to next slide in Powerpoint Edit Mode
When editing in PowerPoint lately (using 2010, but occurs in other versions I believe), I have often pasted in large images that are larger than the screen. I'll then scroll down (with my trackpad) to ...
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Windows 10 - Powershell console, cannot vertically scroll
For some reason I don't get any vertical scrollbars in powershell, and I cannot scroll up to see any commands or output after they've gone out of view.
I can't see the output from my commands if it ...
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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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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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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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Disabling scroll wheel acceleration on OS X Mavericks? [duplicate]
So I've been issued a nice new Macbook Air from work.
When I use it with a mouse, the scroll wheel is driving me absolutely nuts. There's such a high degree of acceleration that I find it impossible ...
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How to scroll half a page in macOS via keyboard/mouse that is similar to trackpad functionality?
I am no longer using the trackpad on my MacBook and using a separate wired Apple keyboard instead. I miss the scrolling functionality on my trackpad, I'm having to make do with the keyboard (the mouse ...
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Scroll down simultaneously in side-by-side browser windows
I usually have two instances of my web browser running side by side in my screen. When I read news or an article from a foreign language, I have it translated at one browser covering the half of the ...
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Inactive window scrolling not working with excel
Inactive window scrolling:
With windows 10 there is a new feature called inactive window scrolling, which means if your mouse hovers over a window you can scroll on it, without it needing to be the ...
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Mouse scroll wheel is jumpy
I'm using Mad Catz R.A.T 5 and recently I started having problems with the my mouse scroll wheel.
When i'm scrolling up or down in google chrome, steam or anything else, my mouse scroll wheel isn't ...
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Windows 10 Scroll Wheel Not Working In All Windows
Just upgraded to Windows 10 on my (~5 year old) laptop, and overall I like it; however, I've got one little quibble with it that I haven't yet found a solution too... When attempting to use the scroll ...
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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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Use trackball to scroll, zoom, etc
I've got a Logitech Marble Trackball (which is great, btw). By setting one of the extra buttons as a "middle" mouse button, when I click it, many apps (like browsers) will start "scrolling mode" so ...
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Adobe Reader plugin for Firefox steals touchpad scrolling input
When a PDF file is open in Firefox 4 in the Adobe Reader plugin, I am unable to scroll using the touchpad multi-touch gestures in other pages in the browser. Instead, the scrolling input is stolen by ...
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On Windows 10, I cannot two-finger-scroll in Google Inbox with Chrome
I have a Dell XPS 13 (2015) which I just upgraded to Windows 10. I can no longer scroll using two-finger drag on the touchpad when in Google Inbox, using Chrome 45.0.2454.15. I can still scroll using ...
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Way too fast scrolling in Emacs on OSX
In GUI builds of emacs for OSX, the scrolling speed when using the trackpad in so fast that it's unusable. I already have the following lines in my init.el:
(setq mouse-wheel-scroll-amount '(1 ((...
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Two-finger scrolling with Ubuntu 9.10 (Samsung NC10)
Is it possible to configure Ubuntu 9.10 to use two-finger scrolling on a Samsung NC10 netbook? I tried to configure it, but I had no success.
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arrow keys stop working to scroll pages
Sometimes, the arrow keys stop working to scroll pages. Sometimes, in Firefox -> Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Accessibility -> General, the first checkbox, about using arrow keys to scroll pages, ...
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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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Set Windows Command Prompt with Unlimited Buffer Size [duplicate]
I am not sure whether Screen Buffer is the parameter which controls how much u scroll through the history in Windows Command Prompt.
I want to set Unlimited Buffer so that I can go past to at-least 1 ...
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Disabling smooth scrolling in OS X Lion when using page up/down
In OS X Lion, when I hit the page up/down keys in browsers (Chrome, Safari), the page doesn't instantly jump as I'd like it to; instead, the page smoothly scrolls into position. I find that ...
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How to reverse the scroll direction in Windows8?
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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