Can I enable on-button scrolling?

MarjaE · 03-28-2024, 04:27 AM

I am using Cinnamon on Fedora.

I would like to enable middle-button scrolling. I was looking for libinput documentation, and stumbled across this:

migraine warning for the link:

https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libi...scrolling.html

I have similar behavior in xreader, where it's the default, and in Firefox, via ScrollAnywhere, but if I can get this globally, it will be so handy. I cannot safely use scrollwheels.

I am not using Wayland, but could probably switch to it if necessary.

libinput shows "Scroll methods: button" so my mouse should support this.

MarjaE · 04-02-2024, 10:04 PM

If using xorg, then in the terminal:

xinput list to find the device number

xinput list-props [device number] to find the properties

xinput set-prop [device number] [property number for Scroll Method Enabled] 0 0 1 to set the appropriate property.

This *does* respond to the scroll direction settings.