On Windows, if you click MMB on some windows, your mouse cursor will turn into a little ↕️ icon, and then you can scroll by moving the mouse cursor up and down, with it going faster the further you drag away from the position it was originally at.
This is one (1) behaviour I miss from Windows. Hours upon hours of scroll-wheeling makes my joints quite tired.
But well. Linux is nothing if not customisable, so I’m wondering if there’s a way to recreate this behaviour on it.
I’m on KDE Plasma.
I wish KDE was a little more customizable on that front, I can either have it be left corner for left click, middle bottom for middle click and right bottom for right click, OR click anywhere and it’s a left click and do multi finger pressed for mid/right click.
I just want left and right click, I have a superwide TouchPad on this laptop and the amount of times I close shit (why is middle mouse close for so many things?) is quite irritating.
TIL people use this feature and it’s for joint pain, cool.
Call it a reverse curb-cut effect, I first discovered it when I was a teenager, and back then I’d sometimes use it out of laziness or because it was quicker (ah how I miss being young and immune to pain)
Then when time happened and I started having arthritis flareups, it was there to help me, and I was like “heck, that’s a neat thing for accessibility”
In Firefox (and many forks of it) this is a setting in the app preferences, I think it is called “
smooth scrollingautoscrolling” or similar.In most other apps I do not think this is possible.
edited, thanks for correction below
Having that on Firefox is already quite the game changer. I just had no idea it was there. Thanks.
Didn’t realize this was a Firefox setting! “Use autoscrolling” was what worked for me
…but then you’re losing quick copy and paste.
Select text then middle click on the window you want to paste it. No keys. Select and a single click.
Of course, if you have more than three mouse buttons you can do both.
Eh?
I don’t paste things as often as I scroll. Plus, my brain associates copying and pasting with the keyboard commands, from 20+ years of doing – That.
Edit-to-answer-your-edit: My mouse has 7 buttons, I’m golden.
Interesting. I somehow rewired my brain when I switched to Linux and now I’m constantly annoyed when middle click doesn’t paste.
In mouse settings there should be option “Press middle button and move mouse to scroll”
Not quite what I was hoping for… But it does help.
Not trying to be a dick, but how is it different? From your description of what you were missing it sounds like exactly the same thing.
Without having tried that setting myself, I’m assuming that you have to keep moving the mouse to scroll, instead of just slightly moving the mouse once in a direction.
