Post #1628668
2026-04-22 09:54 UTC
@zhenech thx, interesting. Thing is: I still use the good old Microsoft Wheel Mouse USB PS/2 Compatible that doesn't offer this -- or is there some trick to make it work on Gnome Shell that works with all mice (from a quick search on the net it does not look like it)
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@zhenech@chaos.social 2026-04-22 09:58
@knurd42 I don't think so. The way it works is that the wheel normally scrolls in small steps which you can feel as if it would go to the next cog or something (but in reality that's a magnet). If you give it a bit of a spin, the firmware inside the mouse detects that, disables the stepping (so the wheel becomes free spinning) and produces more scroll events. I think to remember that for Trackpoints you could configure them to accelerate the scrolling with time. But they had infinite scroll.