Enable Mouse Wheel Scrolling in Byobu

Above solutions didn't work for me however...

The fix for me for this (I had the problme for months!) was kinda surreal and like most folks I didn't believe it until I did it:

Turns out some MS mice have a scrollwheel bug.

Try unplugging the USB cable / dongle then plug back in.

That's it!

Now my mouse moves normally (one line at a time, not half a screen!)

This worked even though I use a 4-port screen/keyboard/mouse KVM box ! Yeah!

This feature is often referred to as mouse scroll acceleration, or mouse wheel acceleration. Unfortunately, this feature is not implemented yet.

Here is the corresponding XServer issue (reported by me originally, also my patch...), this is the launchpad report, and here is a similar report for lipinput in Wayland.

I guess you could help with your vote on the issue. Or with an updated patch for libinput.

I implemented such a feature in user space here (mouse-scroll-wheel-acceleration-userspace). This will increase the scroll speed, or accelerate the scroll speed. You would just run this in the background, with your preferred options. The code is quite simple Python code, and should be easy to modify as well.