I've recently switched to Ubuntu, and the one thing that has been bothering me is the scroll speed, which I can't seem to change. In windows I used to have it set around 7 lines, but it seem to be around 3 on Ubuntu, and unchangeable. How can I change the speed?
Ubuntu – Increasing scroll speed
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Best Answer
If it's only for web, you can change the scroll speed in FireFox:
Edit
menu >Preferences
>Advanced
tab >Browsing
group: disable smooth scrollingFine-tuning:
about:config
in the address barmousewheel.withnokey.sysnumlines
to FALSEThen change the
mousewheel.withnokey.numlines
from 1 to whatever you want.For Firefox versions 73.3.1 and later: - change the
mousewheel.min_line_scroll_amount
from 1 to whatever you want.And a more general, system-wide solution:
For touchpads, some drivers allow customizing scroll sensitivity, like GPointingDeviceSettings (GSynaptics successor).
For mice, currently Gnome offers no way for a user to adjust a mouse wheel speed. It's a known wanted feature, triaged as WishList. A solution would be to use some hacks, or really dig deep into a mess of configuration files, and possibly some recompiles. Not fun if you need to adjust the value until you find a comfortable one.