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Mouse Wheel Scrolling Speed

MrHappyGoLucky12

Sun Jul 29, 2012 6:55:51 pm

I am still having trouble with my mouse wheel almost rending ZorinOS unusable. 1/8 of a turn of the scroll wheel on the mouse can take you from the top of the page to the bottom in an instant. Is there a way to slow this down? :evil: Tried different mice, playing with the settings in Control Center, etc. However, I don't believe there is a setting for the mouse scroll wheel in there.

Wolfman

Sun Jul 29, 2012 7:06:04 pm

Hi,

I think I have found the settings in Dconf:

Dconf Editor > Org > Gnome > Settings-Daemon > Mouse

and take a look there, restart your PC afterwards.

A shot in dark is to paste this command in a terminal and restart:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse middle-button-enabled true

Regards Wolfman :D

MrHappyGoLucky12

Sun Jul 29, 2012 8:43:14 pm

How do I get to Dconf Editor? sudo apt-get install dconf-tools. Once installed, run dconf-tools?

Wolfman

Sun Jul 29, 2012 9:31:26 pm

open a terminal with "Ctrl + Alt + t"

type in the terminal:

dconf-editor

Regards Wolfman :D

madvinegar

Mon Jul 30, 2012 5:50:27 am

You could also download from the software center the packages:

"Keyboard and mouse"
"Pointing devices"

And check the settings there. As I see, there are options for the mouse scrolling speed etc.

MrNovi

Thu Aug 23, 2012 10:59:25 pm

I'm having the same problem, and can't get any of the suggestions to work. Starting dconf from a terminal just locks it up and neither of the other two options will even start up.

Any other ideas on how to fix this mess and make Zorin usable?

Wolfman

Fri Aug 24, 2012 9:11:33 am

MrNovi wrote:I'm having the same problem, and can't get any of the suggestions to work. Starting dconf from a terminal just locks it up and neither of the other two options will even start up.

Any other ideas on how to fix this mess and make Zorin usable?

Hi,

have you fully updated your system ??:

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2247

Do that first if you haven't already done it and let us know if it helps.

Have you also tried enabling Natural scrolling with Ubuntu Tweak??.

Regards Wolfman :D
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MrNovi

Sun Aug 26, 2012 9:38:07 pm

Yes. All that does is cause the the scroll wheel to run in reverse. Now when I turn the wheel to scroll down, it scrolls up and vice versa.

Any other ideas or do I need to wait for the next release for it to be fixed?

Wolfman

Mon Aug 27, 2012 6:51:24 am

Hi,

try running "dpkg" from the recovery menu.

See also:

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2247

I don't know of a fix, it may work itself out with updates, it has been reported as a bug for some time now!!.

Are your software sources set to "Main" ??.

Do you have another mouse you can try out??, borrow one maybe, it might just be a specific type of mouse brand!!.

Regards Wolfman :D