Suse 9.2 : How to change amount mouse wheel scrolls by?

timko · 02-15-2005, 08:24 AM

Hello,

I can't seem to find anywhere in KDE to change the amount the scroll wheel scrolls by.

I find that the wheel mouse scroll by a ridiculously small amount no matter what application I use.

Can anyone tell me how to change it?

Thanks

overlord73 · 02-15-2005, 08:47 AM

nothing in the control center-attached devices?!

abisko00 · 02-15-2005, 09:26 AM

Try KDE Control Center -> Peripherals -> Mouse -> Advanced

In my case there is an option 'Mouse wheel scrolls by'

timko · 02-15-2005, 02:16 PM

Thanks, seems like I didn't look hard enough

The setting seems to work fine for most applications but it doesn't seem to affect Firefox v1.0 - and yes I have restarted Firefox and I've even rebooted Suse

abisko00 · 02-16-2005, 02:31 AM

In Mozilla, there was and extra option for the mousewheel in the preferences. In Firefox I cannot find this, but if you type about:config in the URL field, you will find several mousewheel configuration option. But I did not understand them

EDIT: I guess you need to change the 'mousewheel.withnokey.numlines' parameter.

timko · 02-16-2005, 04:02 AM

Thanks for the tip on the about:config settting.

I found that I also had to set "mousewheel.withnokey.sysnumlines" to false first - which is odd since as mentioned previously it didn't seem to be affected by the system set number of lines when it was set to true. Anyway, it works the way I want it to now and I scroll quickly down pages