How can I make my middle mouse button work like it does in Windows?

[guest2013-1]

Whenever I click my middle mouse button it turns into an auto-scroller so I can just move my mouse up and down and the page scrolls. In linux it doesn't work.... eish

 

[d0b33]

Whenever I click my middle mouse button it turns into an auto-scroller so I can just move my mouse up and down and the page scrolls. In linux it doesn't work.... eish

You talking about firefox?

Edit> preferences>advanced> tick "use autoscrolling"

lol dude, you should create one thread for all your questions.

 

[MyWorld]

And now to blow your mind and have you go "how do I do this in Windows then!!!"

Highlight a piece of text and middle click the 3rd mouse button to have it auto-paste. Once you get used to this there is no end to the frustration of having to right click -> copy -> paste in Windows.

 

[concentricpuddle]

And now to blow your mind and have you go "how do I do this in Windows then!!!"

Highlight a piece of text and middle click the 3rd mouse button to have it auto-paste. Once you get used to this there is no end to the frustration of having to right click -> copy -> paste in Windows.

If there's one behaviour I miss when using Windows it's that one. Does Win7 have it maybe?

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

You talking about firefox?

Edit> preferences>advanced> tick "use autoscrolling"

lol dude, you should create one thread for all your questions.

OK, I learn't something new tonight. It works !!!!

But then again the whole idea of middle click in LINUX is the pasting.


EDIT/UPDATE: This is awesome. If you middle click inside a text/input box in your browser it still pastes (this is an important usability feature as I work with log files all day) but if you middle click anywhere else it does the whole scroll thingy ... schweet

 

[guest2013-1]

Yay my thread was helpful

And I create seperate ones as they're seperate topics, so the search engines pick them up quicker and is more relevant to searches/discussions. I've seen threads go into 10's of posts and never really answering 1 question properly.

I like lurning stuffs

 

[sn3rd]

If there's one behaviour I miss when using Windows it's that one. Does Win7 have it maybe?

Behaviour that I miss most is being able to scroll out-of-focus windows.

 

[concentricpuddle]

Behaviour that I miss most is being able to scroll out-of-focus windows.

Oh, and don't forget that most DE's give you the option to resume your copy/move if something went wrong. Not having that is infuriating to say the least.

 

[Amida]

Yeah I also wanted to know how to do this

 

[adrianx]

Behaviour that I miss most is being able to scroll out-of-focus windows.

+1 (like they say in the classics)

 

[bdt]

You talking about firefox?

Edit> preferences>advanced> tick "use autoscrolling"

lol dude, you should create one thread for all your questions.

Ok, now I've learnt something new too! For my part, whenever I get to Firefox in Linux (Ok, Ubuntu..) I always get a new tab ('cos I want autoscroll on the page I'm viewing) , go to the address bar and invoke "about:config". Then, after the silly warning, filter for 'scroll' and change the boolean on general.autoscroll to true and problem solved ...I wonder if that menu-driven approach is the front door in to the same place the manual change is?

 

[adrianx]

Ok, now I've learnt something new too! For my part, whenever I get to Firefox in Linux (Ok, Ubuntu..) I always get a new tab ('cos I want autoscroll on the page I'm viewing) , go to the address bar and invoke "about:config". Then, after the silly warning, filter for 'scroll' and change the boolean on general.autoscroll to true and problem solved ...I wonder if that menu-driven approach is the front door in to the same place the manual change is?

Yes. There is a file called prefs.js that gets updated whenever you change a default value.

If "autoscrolling" is not default and you enable it, this is what gets written to that file:

user_pref("general.autoScroll", true);

When you disable autoscrolling (either in menu or about:config), the line is removed.

 

[garethmcc]

+1 (like they say in the classics)

Same here. I actually try it without realising in Win 7 and get so frustrated that I now have to make my in-focus app lose focus just so I can scroll two lines down

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

My favourite middle click function would have to be the title bar middle click, which brings the bottom windows to the front.

 

[d0b33]

My favourite middle click function would have to be the title bar middle click, which brings the bottom windows to the front.

Thanks for the tip, that rocks.