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 !
Oldest comments (63)
That was really useful, thank you!
You are welcome, thanks to you !
Awesome, bro!
Thank you 🙂 👍
I just wanted to let you know this worked! Thank you!
😊👍
Thanks you too
thank you!
Thank you too 👍
My back button stopped working on my mouse
Try to use imwheel -b "4 5"
wow this was really helpful !!! Thank you so much !!!!
You are welcome 🙂 thank kou 👍
For those wondering how to do step 6 see io.bikegremlin.com/11541/linux-mou...
Thank you for your link 👍
thanks man
You're welcome
Thanks mate, this worked like a charm.
You are welcome, thanks to you and dev.to 😊
Hi,
When I run step 4, I'm getting this "This option is not available. Please see --help for all possible usages."
Sorry, have you downloaded script on step 2 ? Or copy and past ?
I got same issue. Both copy&paste and download the script produce same issue
Thank you a lot!
You are welcome 😉👍
it works !!!! thank you so much
You're welcome 👍😉
Just one thing, this is not limited to Gnome only as is commented on the top of the script, imwheel works at X windows level. It worked for me on KDE.
Thanks for your comment ! 😀👍
Thanks a lot :)
You are welcome 😀👍
Thanks a lot, you solved my problem!
Thank you to dev.to community 😀
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