On Windows, if you click MMB on some windows, your mouse cursor will turn into a little ↕️ icon, and then you can scroll by moving the mouse cursor up and down, with it going faster the further you drag away from the position it was originally at.

This is one (1) behaviour I miss from Windows. Hours upon hours of scroll-wheeling makes my joints quite tired.

But well. Linux is nothing if not customisable, so I’m wondering if there’s a way to recreate this behaviour on it.

I’m on KDE Plasma.

  • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
    01·
    22 days ago

    …but then you’re losing quick copy and paste.

    Select text then middle click on the window you want to paste it. No keys. Select and a single click.

    Of course, if you have more than three mouse buttons you can do both.

    • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialOP
      5·
      22 days ago

      Eh?

      I don’t paste things as often as I scroll. Plus, my brain associates copying and pasting with the keyboard commands, from 20+ years of doing – That.

      Edit-to-answer-your-edit: My mouse has 7 buttons, I’m golden.

      • exu@feditown.comEnglish
        2·
        22 days ago

        Interesting. I somehow rewired my brain when I switched to Linux and now I’m constantly annoyed when middle click doesn’t paste.

        • Shareni@programming.dev
          1·
          20 days ago

          I’ve used Linux exclusively for 10+ years and dualbooted long before that, and I just now learned about that flow.