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What’s your “I can’t believe other people don’t do this” hack? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Using shift + scroll wheel to horizontally scroll in a UI. Whenever I see my project manager going all the way to the bottom of the application and dragging the scrollbars to move horizontally it just kills me a bit inside haha.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Horizontal scrolling with shift + scroll wheel is so slow compared to dragging the bar though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Which is what middle mouse button scrolling is for... horizontally or vertically, and fast, too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I wish that worked everywhere, but it doesn't.

Hmm maybe shift+middle button can override it on certain UIS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I wish that worked everywhere, but it doesn’t.

Unless you're on Linux

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I'm just glad that KDE now has an option to disable pasting using the middle mouse button (mousewheel click). Only available on Wayland though - AFAIK this behaviour is deeply rooted in X11 and it's not easy to disable it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Firefox will still cause a paste though, so you have to disable it separately over there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm using arch btw, and it doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

As an "arch btw" user, you should know, you need to configure your stuff yourself.
Otherwise, you're just an arch user.

KDE once made it easier with a GUI https://pointieststick.com/2024/07/05/this-week-in-kde-autoscrolling/
This should be coming in 6.2, I suppose. Until then, you can do it with libinput

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm using arch btw for the meme. Wouldn't say I'm an Arch user though.

Fair enough, I'll do some testing. This specifically came about on a react based page in ff esr.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I see. When using X11, I was using xinput to set MMB scrolling, but at that time, it had the problem of activating the MMB paste function, if I didn't click and hold properly.

Over time, my habits changed and I kinda stopped using it. But maybe I'll try again once it comes in Plasma 6.2 (it's actually in beta rn)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Because some mice have a secondary scroll wheel, or the scroll wheel can tilt to scroll sideways

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

the scroll wheel can tilt to scroll sideways

I use these for switching tabs in browsers/IDEs by remapping them to Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab using Input Remapper