Ubuntu 20.04 mouse scroll wheel speed
I had a very slow scroll speed until I found that.
Install and run
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You have to install imwhell with :
sudo apt install imwheel
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And download this bash script on http://www.nicknorton.net (thanks to him)
You can type, as @victoor say in comments :You can just do
bash <(curl -s http://www.nicknorton.net/mousewheel.sh)
instead of copy the script manually and changing permissions. :)
#!/bin/bash # Version 0.1 Tuesday, 07 May 2013 # Comments and complaints http://www.nicknorton.net # GUI for mouse wheel speed using imwheel in Gnome # imwheel needs to be installed for this script to work # sudo apt-get install imwheel # Pretty much hard wired to only use a mouse with # left, right and wheel in the middle. # If you have a mouse with complications or special needs, # use the command xev to find what your wheel does. # ### see if imwheel config exists, if not create it ### if [ ! -f ~/.imwheelrc ] then cat >~/.imwheelrc<<EOF ".*" None, Up, Button4, 1 None, Down, Button5, 1 Control_L, Up, Control_L|Button4 Control_L, Down, Control_L|Button5 Shift_L, Up, Shift_L|Button4 Shift_L, Down, Shift_L|Button5 EOF fi ########################################################## CURRENT_VALUE=$(awk -F 'Button4,' '{print $2}' ~/.imwheelrc) NEW_VALUE=$(zenity --scale --window-icon=info --ok-label=Apply --title="Wheelies" --text "Mouse wheel speed:" --min-value=1 --max-value=100 --value="$CURRENT_VALUE" --step 1) if [ "$NEW_VALUE" == "" ]; then exit 0 fi sed -i "s/\($TARGET_KEY *Button4, *\).*/\1$NEW_VALUE/" ~/.imwheelrc # find the string Button4, and write new value. sed -i "s/\($TARGET_KEY *Button5, *\).*/\1$NEW_VALUE/" ~/.imwheelrc # find the string Button5, and write new value. cat ~/.imwheelrc imwheel -kill
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Then set up the .sh file to executable with :
chmod +x mousewheel.sh
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And then run script with :
./mousewheel.sh
And set your mouse wheel speed in the popup by clicking on apply button. (my setting is 7) Re-run script for change.
Finally add imwheel in ubuntu startup application.
If you have troubleshooting with previous and next mouse buttons :
- Add
-b "4 5"
to imwhell :
imwheel -b "4 5"
You can found others details here for setting speed by app :
Fixing Mouse Wheel on Chrome in Ubuntu 18.04 Virtualbox / VMWare
Dan Voyce ・ Jul 23 '19 ・ 2 min read
Or in the man page : man imwheel
Image : Pexels
Sorry, it's my first post.
Have a nice day !
Latest comments (63)
Hey so I installed this, and ran it a few times, now my scroll speed is very fast with no way to slow it down again?
Whenever I restart my os the mouse speed get's back to 0 automatically. Then I have to do set it again manually using the mentioned procedure. Can you help?
OS: Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
Your script doesn't work for me.
Here are my revised lines that made the script work for me (line numbers included):
FYI the changes are: added grep to return the numbers only and put an equals sign in the --text option for zenity.
Thanks.
=D Thanks @bavouzet
Does someone know how to make these settings persistent, so it can survive reboot?
Look here wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IMWheel
as jon sivku say
😉
thanks, did that, works like a charm
I had an issue with this script disabling my mouses back/forward buttons. To fix, add the following to the last line of the script: imwheel -kill -b "4 5"
Why I need to fix this every time I turn on my computer?
Here's an article that explains how to turn this action into a startup script wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IMWheel
Thank's work fine in ubuntu 20.04
A couple of other options are listed here: askubuntu.com/questions/285689/inc...
I implemented an own simple Python script which you can simply run in the background, which implements mouse scroll wheel acceleration: github.com/albertz/mouse-scroll-wh...
Best tutorial on the subject so far. Quick and efficient, thank you!
Thank you for your comment 😊
Thank you man, it's working.
you can just do this to download the file :
~> curl nicknorton.net/mousewheel.sh -o mousewheel.sh
Ok, thank you 😉
If I try to run the script, it says "Value out of range.".
If I run "bash <(curl -s nicknorton.net/mousewheel.sh)" as superuser then I see the windows to adjust the speed and it works fine.
Adding it to the startup doesn't help... each time I have to run it as root.
What am I doing wrong?
Using this on Kubuntu 20.04.1 LTS and Thinkpad L380
nevermind, deleting ~/.imwheelrc and re-running the script fixed it.
Ok 👍😊
You can just do
bash <(curl -s http://www.nicknorton.net/mousewheel.sh)
instead of copy the script manually and changing permissions. :)Ok, good tip ! I will add this to post ;)
Many thanks !
Hey, is it possible to adjust the script so that touchpad scrolling speed is not affected? Touchpad speed was just right, I only need to adjust mouse scrolling speed. Thanks!
Hey, I don't know... I'm not the script creator.
Instead of put the script in starts app, try to run it manualy when you are using mouse. Too, you can try to have two settings files.
If you found, say it to me,
Have a nice day