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Idea #5881: Mouse Wheel Acceleration

bug This idea was marked as already implemented the 14 July 11. Available starting Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon.
Written by comrade the 27 Mar 08 at 22:49. Category: Accessibility. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: Already implemented
Rationale
Using a mouse wheel to scroll in Windows has always had acceleration, so the faster you move the wheel the more the scroll distance increases.

Mouse cursor movement uses (configurable) acceleration, so I can't understand why this feature is lacking in the wheel (admittedly as with all other distros to my knowledge)

I find this provides a much more responsive feel to using the scroll wheel in any application, especially in a web browser

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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #5881
Written by comrade the 27 Mar 08 at 22:49.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #5881 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!
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Solution #2: implementation in xserver
Written by albertz the 31 Aug 10 at 16:45.
A bug report is here on Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/meta-kde/+bug/619403

I am currently working on this and trying to implement it directly in the XServer.

A first patch for the XOrg-XServer can be found here:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29905

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Lee wrote on the 28 Mar 08 at 01:17
I think you'll find that X has had mouse acceleration for much longer than windows.

Lee wrote on the 28 Mar 08 at 01:19
Oh, you're talking about the middle button wheel. Sorry, missed that.

comrade wrote on the 29 Mar 08 at 11:11
I don't think this is a dupe of #3214, since acceleration is different to linear movement of the wheel. It would be nice to have both configurable speed and acceleration, though

danfg wrote on the 28 Jul 08 at 13:07
This is NOT a duplicate of #3214. Who's the sloppy b*stard that said this is a duplicate? How can we remove this duplicate association?

I miss windows' mouse wheel acceleration so much, AFAIK it's an exclusive feature of Microsoft IntelliPoint mouse drivers (I don't remember Logitech drivers having mouse wheel acceleration, but I could be wrong, they might have it by now).

It would be great if Ubuntu had something like this out of the box: if you scroll slowly, it moves less lines at a time, if you scroll faster, many more lines.

danfg wrote on the 29 Jul 08 at 17:11
Thanks Nicolas, from the Ubuntu Brainstorm Dev team, for removing the duplicate association.

I'm not sure how many users are familiar with the convenience of mouse wheel acceleration, I hope that those who are, vote for this idea so Ubuntu users can realize what they've been missing out on.

feenstra wrote on the 12 Jan 11 at 17:02
I must be missing something (or I'm just plain stupid), but I can't find out how to vote?!?!? Yes, I'm logged in. Is 'bookmarking' the same as voting? (Would be terribly confusing if it is!)

Tekno.Statik wrote on the 16 Apr 11 at 23:41
I know, I wanna vote on this damned thing too but can't... It's almost as if they accept it once it reaches votes, but they remove voting after it's put in development.

albertz wrote on the 8 Feb 12 at 09:42
Hm, the status is somewhat wrong. It is/was implemented (see my patch) but it is not included in Ubuntu.

albertz wrote on the 8 Feb 12 at 09:52
Ubuntuforums thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1566441


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