Windows – Global scroll acceleration in Windows

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Is there a way to add smoothing and acceleration to scrolling in Windows. Cruising through pages by scrolling faster beats having to scroll a hundred times, and is the default behaviour of the mouse scroll in Mac OS X.

I am aware that there are specialised mice that are capable of this, but there are also software methods to do achieve this for example Chromium Wheel Smooth Scroller.

Is there a program to apply a Windows wide scrolling behaviour.

Notes: running Windows 7.

Best Answer

You can change the number of lines to be scrolled per notch on the wheel:

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(3 lines is default setting, 100 is the maximum)

Here's a little shareware utility ($10) that might be worth looking at:

ScrollNavigator also adds dynamic acceleration to your mouse wheel. This indispensable feature makes mouse wheel scrolling more accurate when you turn the wheel slowly, and it scrolls your documents much faster when you turn the wheel quickly.

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Related Solutions

Linux – How to scroll half a page on Linux

I finally came up with a solution that works very well for most of my use-cases. Using xdotools, I created two scripts, one for scrolling in each direction. This is the script for scrolling down (to scroll up, substitute '5' for '4').

#!/bin/bash

#Get active window id
win=`xdotool getactivewindow`

#Move the mouse to the active window
xdotool mousemove --window $win 45 110 

#Scroll active window several times
xdotool click --clearmodifiers 5
xdotool click --clearmodifiers 5
xdotool click --clearmodifiers 5
xdotool click --clearmodifiers 5
xdotool click --clearmodifiers 5
xdotool click --clearmodifiers 5
xdotool click --clearmodifiers 5
xdotool click --clearmodifiers 5
xdotool click --clearmodifiers 5
xdotool click --clearmodifiers 5
xdotool click --clearmodifiers 5

#Send click to specific window. Finicky.
#xdotool click --window $win 5

Basically, xdotools get the activewindow id and then moves the moves there before sending the mouse scroll signal several times. I could not get it to work by directly specifying which window to send the clicks to, so I solved it by moving the mouse cursor instead. Since Linux automatically scrolls the window under the mouse, this solves problem 1 listed in my question. The --clearmodifiers parameter releases whatever modifier key used in the hotkey combination so that the only key that is sent is the one from xdotool, this solves problem number 2 for me.

The only minor annoyance left is that in some windows, there are multiple panels and with this script I can only scroll the top leftmost panel. This is not a problem when browsing but for IDEs such as spyder. So if someone has a better approach, please share!

Windows – Achieving precise mouse movement despite trembling fingers

I have never used this on Windows, but I know it from being a very useful Mac feature, so I went in search of a Windows equivalent..

Mouse Keys turns your 10-key numeric keypad into a 'mouse tracker' giving movement up/down/left/right using 8 2 4 6 , diagonals on 7 9 1 3 & a click on 5 [with modifiers * - or + ]

It doesn't remove your actual mouse functionality, it's enabled in addition, so as it's a little cumbersome for large movements you can use either or both methods to get near your intended target, then fine-tune that with the mouse keys. One tap is one pixel, just about; press & hold for larger movements.