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What fast UI mechanisms for page scrolling exist for desktop Linux users?

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http://unix.stackexchange.com – On Windows, most programs with large, scrollable text containers (e.g. all browsers, most word processors and IDEs) let you press the middle mouse button and then move the mouse to scroll. This scrolling is smooth and allows you to scroll very quickly using just the mouse. When I've used Linux on laptops, two-finger scrolling performs roughly the same function; it's easy to scroll down a page quickly (much more quickly than one can by scrolling a mouse wheel) but the scrolling remains smooth enough to allow precise positioning. I am unsure how to achieve the same thing when running Linux on (HowTos)

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Submitted by missing on 12/19/2012

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This is the way that Mac OS scrolling with a boring old handheld mouse works (as opposed to fancy soap bar and multitouch mice): The more and the faster you scroll, the further the mouse scrolling goes.

For instance, if I scroll one little tick on the mouse, the window scrolls a tiny amount.

I'm using a Logitech K750(keyboard) and M705(mouse) using the same (one!) unifying USB connector. I paired them with my mac, but use them on my desktop with Ubuntu 12.04.1. Works nice. Just a few adjustments I'd like to do.

In my new installation, the mouse cursor moves smoothly, but when I scroll a web page, that is not smooth. I scrolled the same page in Kubuntu, and it was smooth there.By "not smooth" I mean I click the wheel one notch, and there is a brief delay before the page responds.Some more testing shows that scrolling in LibreOffice documents is smooth.

Just installed Ubuntu 11.10. Been a while since I used any distro and I'm very impressed.

To be difficult, does anyone know how to enable the middle mouse button scroll option when browsing? I don't know if this is an OS level thing or browser config. option.

In Windows, you can usually click the mouse wheel to bring up a scroll icon when using browsers.

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Out of the box, this Logitech M325 mouse works great with one issue: cannot use the scroll wheel for horizontal scrolling. It acts as forward or back in the browsers or does nothing in other windows.

I read that there is out of the box support for the Apple Magic Mouse in recent Linux kernels, but does that include full functionality such as multiple mouse buttons and multitouch??

For me the two important things are middle button and 360 degree scrolling (or at least vertical and horizontal scrolling).

Can anyone confirm?? Thanks!