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I have the wheel rolling working just fine and dandy, but when i push the wheel down (as in the click) it likes to just paste whatever is ready to be pasted. it's like i have a CTRL + V on my mouse. handy but i'd rather get it to do the variable speed scroll. ya know, where you click and move the mouse away from where you clicked it and scroll through a page at different speeds.
has anyone accomplished this? it's obviously possible, these are the things that linux was made for.
Distribution: Xubuntu 9.10, Gentoo 2.6.27 (AMD64), Darwin 9.0.0 (arm)
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Um, middle click is supposed to paste in linux. try it in a terminal highlight something then middle click and it should paste whatever you highlighted. I'm not sure what you mean by 'variable speed scroll' but when I'm in firefox if I middle click on the website background it does what you are descibing.
Last edited by johnson_steve; 07-31-2006 at 02:13 PM.
i do see it's advantages but i don't do alot of work in the console so it makes it, too me, a sumwhat useless button.
By variable speed scrool i mean:
you click the wheel as if you would the regular button, then move the mouse down a bit. then web page will start to scrool downwards slowly. move the mouse furthur downwards and the page starts to scroll faster.
By variable speed scrool i mean:
you click the wheel as if you would the regular button, then move the mouse down a bit. then web page will start to scrool downwards slowly. move the mouse furthur downwards and the page starts to scroll faster.
Like the default behaviour of the middle-click button in Windows? Blech.
Even for non-console work it is great. Highlight some text in one window and middle-click in another to paste what you highlighted (no click, drag, ctrl+c, click, click, ctrl+v. With linux it's click, drag, click).
EDIT: OK, I'll be nice and tell you how to do what you want
These instructions are for Firefox 1.5+ as that is what I have open. Go to Edit->Preferences. Click on the Advanced tab and then General. Enable Auto-scrolling.
hahaha thanks Daga. this will help me read those long essay pages alot more conveniently. like you said it's only for Firefox right? If I were to still click drag click in Konqueror or anything else but firefox, it should stay as the linux default right?
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Originally Posted by Daga
These instructions are for Firefox 1.5+ as that is what I have open. Go to Edit->Preferences. Click on the Advanced tab and then General. Enable Auto-scrolling.
I didn't even know you needed this on. I don't remember turing it on. If you middle-click in a text input box it still pastes.
hahaha thanks Daga. this will help me read those long essay pages alot more conveniently. like you said it's only for Firefox right? If I were to still click drag click in Konqueror or anything else but firefox, it should stay as the linux default right?
Yep, it only affects Firefox to my knowledge. I haven't played with the settings of Konqueror very much (prefer Gnome )
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