Firstly this is going to be a real short thing – it is firework night after all and I have places to be but none the less I need to keep up with this.

 

I’m not exactly sure why this has suddenly affected me, maybe the recent change in my peripherals that I use on a daily basis however some people may have noticed that the scroll wheel within ubuntu doesn’t really scroll anywhere fast.

Now I thought ok this will be a really simple fix, going into the system settings then mouse/pointer options and changing the number of lines the scroll wheel scrolls. However unlike shiny Windows, ubuntu doesn’t have this option and therefore you are left with a rather annoying slow scroll speed. Coming from a background of knowledge in regards to ripping things apart and putting them together I tried to think of ways to be able to change the sensitivity of this input. My first thought was trying to work out how I would be able to capture cat /dev/input/event4 and then manipulate that action to change the speed of the scroll action. Discovering that this was pretty much a long drawn out task I discovered that by possibly editing your xorg.conf I possibly could assign an option and then set that variable.

So that’s what I did, I edited my xorg.conf file to include Option "VertScrollDelta" "10" in it underneath the section defined for mouse options. So willingly I saved my xorg file, restarted x and hoped it had work. Didn’t exactly go as planned, well I say this but there was really no difference. Nothing had changed at all, it was better it wasn’t worse. So I gave up for the moment. Looking across forums regarding this item it seems it has actually been an outstanding bug in GNOME for about nine years, one they are yet to fix.

As it is very frustrating to pretty much have to attack your mouse to get to the bottom of a page, I think I will keep this in my “fix, to-do” list so maybe one day I can sit down and actually get the time to look at the problem straight on and try and see if I can find a work around. Maybe one day.