Windows – remedy for a no scroll wheel trackball

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I am thinking to buy an trackball and my option is Logitech trackman marble. But then I found that there is no scroll wheel. How do you tackle with that? Do I definitely want to buy a trackball with scroll wheel? I scroll a lot using facebook.

I don't want to click with my index and middle fingers, so some trackball mice will not work for me, like the Trackman Wheel.

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If you're on Windows I'd suggest trying out AutoHotKey, other users have already tackled scrolling with the Marble Mouse (I used the script a the bottom):

http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/4677-wheel-button-emulation-script/

Logitech's solution that comes with their drivers is strange: you click once to enable 4 way scrolling and click again to disable it. You can't hold and scroll which is what I was after. I wound up uninstalling their software.

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How to Invert Scroll Wheel in Applications Using AutoHotkey

Found an answer here: Topic: mouse wheel zoom direction. This will swap the scroll direction in Firefox:

#IfWinActive, ahk_class MozillaUIWindowClass
WheelDown::WheelUp
WheelUp::WheelDown

Apparently to get it to work for multiple apps, you'd need to create a window group.

Unfortunately this would affect things like list boxes inside those apps, too. AutoHotkey can tell what "ClassNN" you're hovering over inside of an app, so that might help narrow it down, but I'm not sure how to use that yet.

Getting Synaptics trackpad to send actual scroll-wheel events

From Scrolling in GTK+ apps with synaptics driver :

When using a Windows laptop, you might be stuck with a synaptic touchpad.

Those crappy drivers with their so-called virtual scrolling create a fake window below the cursor to display their custom scrolling icon.

That window interfere with the signal sent to the application under, and GTK for some reason can’t detect that (most likely the devs don’t care about us). The result is being unable to scroll in popular GTK apps like Wireshark or Pidgin.

After playing with Spy++ and Procmon for some time, I found an interesting registry key that solved my problem. This setting will disable the custom cursor when you scroll, effectively fixing the scrolling problem in GTK apps.

First you have to open regedit. Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Synaptics\SynTPEnh
and create a new DWORD called UseScrollCursor with a value of 0.

Restart SynTPEh (or reboot).

Scrolling should work in GTK apps now, but you won’t see the scrolling cursor anymore.

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