I'm looking for a way to be able to scroll half a page, preferably by using a key combination like shift page up/down. In Windows, this is doable via autohotkey, for OS there does not seem to be any as easy solution as all I found was this.
I just switch to using Ubuntu 14.04 (from win7). From googling around it seems to me that the easiest way to achieve this is by creating a couple of xdotool/xbindkeys scripts, which emulate half a page worth of mouse scrolling or arrow clicking up and down, respectively. Then I would bind these to custom hotkeys.
However, since I just switched to Ubuntu, I realize that I might be missing something. Therefore I wonder, which is your preferred way to enable half page scrolling in Linux?
Update: I created a script, which emulates scrolling the mousewheel a few times:
#!/bin/bash
xdotool click 4
xdotool click 4
xdotool click 4
xdotool click 4
It works decently, but two problems remain:
It always scrolls the window where the mouse is. I have tried to make it scroll the active window but no luck.
Since it sends mouse wheel scrolls, these are interpreted by other programs such that I cannot have control as a hotkey, because then it zooms. This is a problem in programs where all hotkeys are taken so ideally, I would like to specify the scrolling distance without emulating mouse wheel scrolling.