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Disable “Ctrl”+mouse wheel zooming in Chrome?

I'm a normal-sighted person and I would like to view pages at 100% all the time. I use keyboard shortcuts that involve Ctrl a lot, so about twenty times a day I accidentally hit Ctrl at the same time ...
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How does a Logitech scroll wheel detect movement?

I just replaced my scroll wheel in my mouse, a one minute repair. But now I've seen something that can't be unseen. Logitech scroll wheels apparently function using magic. It freely rests on three ...
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Mouse wheel scrolls the page down then up, or up then down

On my Windows 7 system, and in all programs, when I scroll down with my mouse, it will scroll partway down then then scroll partway up. It is totally erratic and is driving me crazy. I do have a ...
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Mac OS X zoom in application with mouse wheel

I am coming from Windows and miss the feature that allows to increase/decrease the text size in many applications (Chrome, PDF readers, Text editors,...) by using CTRL-MouseWheel. Instead the size of ...
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How can I get google chrome to switch tabs using the mouse wheel?

At home I'm running Fedora 17, and I've grown accustomed to quickly scanning through open tabs by using the mouse wheel while hovering over the tab bar. It's a very natural gesture for me now. At ...
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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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Emulate mouse wheel scroll with keyboard

Some programs (e.g. ms html help viewer) have zoom-in features that only seem to work when you mouse wheel scroll. Is there a way to emulate mouse wheel scroll using the keyboard?
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Mouse wheel scrolling in less and vim using urxvt

I have started working with rxvt-unicode (aka urxvt) but found an issue with mouse-wheel scrolling, as compared to gnome-terminal and konsole. The mouse wheel works fine for going through the ...
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Mouse wheel scroll causes zoom in/out in Google Chrome

When scrolling using the mouse wheel scroll in Google Chrome, there is about 25% chance it would zoom in/out as if I have pressed the Ctrl key. Disabling my mouse gesture extension reduces the chance ...
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How do you remap the scroll wheel up and down actions of a Logitech G700 mouse?

I have a Logitech G700 mouse. I'd like to remap the scroll up and down actions of the scroll wheel to either a key press or macro. Is this possible using the SetPoint software or some other means?
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How can I adjust the mouse scroll wheel sensitivity?

I just replaced my old Logitech mouse with a Microsoft Wireless Laser mouse, and the scrolling is too fast for my liking. How can I adjust the scroll sensitivity? Update: I just updated to 10.04, ...
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Using tmux - scrolling via ssh

Instead of ssh-ing from many terminal windows to a remote server, I deceded to start using tmux via one single ssh connection. There are things I cant seem to get working though. The most important ...
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How do I disable the middle mouse button click?

My mouse is buggy and the middle mouse button is always pressed and I dont know how I disable the click function. I have looked at my mouse settings and I cant change the middle mouse function at all....
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Windows 7 Explorer - Activate mouse focus to be able to scroll in tree and file view?

I'd like to be able to scroll in the tree view without having to click in it. Is there a way to do this? I have once used a tool that generally gives focus to the window underneath the mouse cursor, ...
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How can I test my mouse wheel click with windows 7

My mouse wheel click seems to be behaving intermittently with my Firefox browser. But I would like to test it to verify it is a hardware issue and not a software one. How can I test my mouse wheel ...
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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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Scrolling mouse sets windows sound volume

Suddenly, when I use the scroll wheel of my mouse, it changes the windows sound volume level. I have a HP DV6-2030SD laptop with Windows 7 64 bit and a Zolid p50622 mouse. When I use the scroll ...
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Setting the mouse wheel to adjust sound level

How can I set my mouse's wheel to increase and decrease the sound level of my PC? Mouse: A4 X-750F
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Google Chrome mouse wheel takes keyboard focus

I recently switched the default browser on all my machines from Firefox to Google Chrome. In general I’m loving Chrome but there is one behaviour that is driving me nuts. Scrolling with the mouse ...
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How to disable the mouse wheel scrolling in mpv?

The wheel has eventually become "loose" with all mice I've owned and can be scrolled by accident. In mpv the wheel controls the video position. from the documentation: WHEEL_* Mouse wheels (...
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How can I make the mouse wheel button perform a double-click in windows 7?

I have a "generic" mouse, and like most mice these days, the wheel has a click action as well. My "Microsoft IntelliMouse 1.1A PS/2 Compatible" Mouse used to have software that would allow the wheel ...
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Jumpy scrolling with mouse wheel

All of a sudden, when I try scrolling through a web page, for every click of the mouse-wheel, it moves up or down a whole page, not smooth scrolling. Yesterday it was still scrolling smoothly. What ...
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How to invert mouse scroll wheel zoom direction in Firefox?

When scrolling down the mouse wheel with CTRL, the zoom decreases. I would like it to increase when I scroll down, and vice versa. Is there a way to change it?
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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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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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Disable smooth scrolling in WordPad?

Is there any way to turn off Smooth Scrolling in WordPad in Windows 10, v1903? When I use the mouse-wheel, I want one "click" of the wheel to result in a single change of screen state. Any ...
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Is the mouse wheel behaviour of Mac OS X or Linux possible in Windows?

In Linux or Mac OS X, every window I hover over registers mouse wheel events without being the focused window. For instance I can have two windows open at the same time and scroll in each one of them ...
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Mouse scroll wheel has stopped working

As of about a week ago, the scroll wheel on mice have stopped working (not just one, all mice). Here's what I've tried to investigate and fix the problem, all to no avail so far: Confirmed the ...
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How do I disable the mouse wheel backlight on a Posturite keyboard?

I recently began using a Posturite Number Slide Arch Keyboard (Model EZ-2018) on my Linux workstation. It came with few instructions; none of them dealt with keyboard function, but rather with ...
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Scrolling with a mouse on a Mac - either too fast or too slow

I have a Macbook, and love the trackpad. It works like nothing else. However, I've changed the setup of my computer, now use it as desktop with separate monitor, mouse and keyboard. The mouse is a ...
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How can I remap the volume scroll wheel to mouse wheel on a Corsair K70 keyboard?

How can I remap the volume scroll wheel to mouse wheel on a Corsair K70 keyboard? (e.g., instead of increasing the volume, I want the scroll to send a mouse wheel up signal) I use Windows 7 SP1 x64 ...
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Windows 10 Horizontal Scroll Issue

I'd like to know What this thing is and how to disable it if possible. It only appears in windows with a horizontal scroll-bar and it allows you to scroll left-right with the mouse wheel. I've tried ...
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VMPlayer, Windows 7 and mouse scrolling

I'm using VMPlayer 4.0 and Windows 7 image in it. My biggest problem is, that I can't use mouse vertical scrolling. Did anybody of you have the same problem and know solution? Thank you in advance, ...
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How can I stop my browser from scrolling while in a game?

Some games and programs use the scroll wheel to scroll or zoom, but if the main window is large enough, this will usually scroll the browser window as well, which will put the game off of the screen. ...
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Mouse scrolling doesn't work right, sometimes wont work at all

This is a problem Iv'e seen multiple questions about but all of them mostly got answered by answers that don't help me, hence I'm asking my own. Iv'e been having this issue with mouse for a while now....
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my mouse scroll wheel doesn't scroll

It's only a minor thing but i can't solve it. I have a ps2 mouse on win xp sp3. the wheel has stopped scrolling in all apps however in apps that support it i can click the wheel and bring up the ...
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How to make the mouse wheel scroll behave the same on both windows and mac os?

I observe that the mouse wheel scroll direction is different on mac and windows. They are opposite. Is there a way to make them behave in the same way? Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
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Font zooming without a wheel

Ever since Windows 7 I've found my desktop's mouse has the magical ability to zoom the font used within most apps if I hold CTRL while rotating the mouse wheel. Is there a way I can implement this ...
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Geting focus when rotating mouse wheel

In Ubuntu when you rotate mouse wheel while mouse pointer is in a region (for example you can volume up or down without any click while you rotate mouse on volume icon in system trey), that region ...
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Windows: Mousewheel scrolling on window without focus

Linux and Windows have a number of differences. One of the little things that I found useful on Linux (this may be specific to certain desktop environments, such as LXDE in my case), was that if I ...
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Vertical Scrolling with mouse wheel - number of lines at a time reverts to 1

I would like this setting to stay at 3, but it keeps reverting to 1. In the middle of work, not after a reboot or anything like that. I notice it when web pages / documents scroll vertically slower ...
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Mouse wheel Chrome bug

When I use the mouse wheel in Chrome (15.0.865.0) to scroll in most text area boxes (even in the questions with similar titles area in SU as I am writing this), I can scroll far beyond the text, and ...
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Double scrolling on Chrome

This isn't a "double scroll bar bug" that I've seen on here, this is something different. To put it simply, sometimes for no reason at all scrolling on chrome will suddenly double. To best ...
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Word 2007 won't let me mouse-wheel-scroll past cursor after editing

I'm using MS Word 2007 at work (on an HP ProBook 6460b, if that makes a difference) and have come across an annoying issue for which I can't seem to find a solution. I'm pretty sure this doesn't ...
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How do I stop scripts from accessing the mouse wheel in Firefox?

I'm using Firefox 16.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.6.8, including the NoScript 2.5.9 plugin. Sometimes when browsing, a web site will have an embedded map or the like within it, and when scrolling down the page ...
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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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Mouse wheel scrolls when it shouldn't in Windows 7

I am running Windows 7 Home Premium x64, Service Pack 1. My mouse is a Logitech MX620 Cordless Laser Mouse, driver provided by Logitech: Logitech HID-compliant Cordless Mouse, version 5.20.12.0 (8/24/...
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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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X-scrollwheel in Windows

Is there any way to have mouse-wheel events sent to whatever window is underneath the mouse pointer, even if it's not the active window? I'd like to have x-scrollwheel capabilities without having to ...
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Mousewheel not working in some areas of the screen

Starting today, my mousewheel stopped working on some areas of the screen. For example, it works absolutely perfectly in the left 20% of the screen. In other (seemingly random) areas, about 50% of ...
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