I am one of many windows immigrants seeking to migrate to Linux and was wondering what can be done in regards to getting middle click autoscroll as well as proper mouse sensitivity adjustments that include disabling mouse acceleration?
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Welcome! For disabling mouse acceleration and adjusting sensitivity, you can go into System Settings then Input Devices and then Mouse, and you should see Acceleration profile. If you select Flat then that disables mouse acceleration.
If you want middle click autoscroll, that can be tricky… if you want autoscrolling in a browser, Firefox has a setting under Browsing called Use Autoscrolling and that should work. If you use Chrome, brave, or another Chromium-based browser, then here is an extension that does autoscrolling: AutoScroll
I found a Stack Exchange article about it if you want to check it out: How to scroll the screen using the middle click
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Welcome!
That is a thing of the past (which didn’t work well in some cases), for quite some time now you just need adding the parameter --enable-blink-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll to the program’s executable path. (Or put it in a .conf file).
oh yeah you could just add that to the .desktop file right?
yes, though some of them exhibit the annoying notice about an “unsupported flag” which can be mitigated according to some by adding --test-type . It’s been a while since I’ve used Chromium-based browsers so I could miss some details.
In the case of OP this would be the equivalent of doing the same in Windoze:
Could we get this moved to Support, please?
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Done.
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Thanks, I actually discovered this shortly after installing the latest Wayland Ryzen architecture version but can the mods unlock my post so I can edit that part of the post?
We still need support for middle click autoscroll globally though, and I personally do not care if this will include options to disable middle click paste for programs that do not support autoscroll as I also want to do that too. Oh and for chromium based browsers you’re supposed to go into “chrome://flags/” or “(browser name)://flags/” if applicable and change the setting for “Middle button autoscroll”.
Edit: I discovered that there is a feature in this distro for a similar feature to autoscrolling that is activated by holding down the middle mouse button, but we still need a proper autoscroll feature and also how do I disable middle click paste due to previous issues I had with said feature?
I was using
--enable-blink-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll --test-type
and I was working in Matrix and found that every time I used the mouse wheel press to auto scroll, it would paste what I had in the clipboard. I went to the plasma settings and changed this. It seems to be working so far. I think this is what you wanted?
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