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Asked: 2018-05-02 08:34:29 +0800 CST

Speeding up the mouse wheel in Ubuntu 18.04

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I find I have to scroll a lot to move the text of my page compared to Windows where I can choose the speed of the mouse wheel.

Does Ubuntu have a similar utility and if so how can I access it?

mouse-scroll mouse-wheel 18.04

5 Answers

  1. This solution worked for me with Ubuntu 18.04:

    http://www.webupd8.org/2015/12/how-to-change-mouse-scroll-wheel-speed.html

    sudo apt-get install imwheel   
cat > ~/.imwheelrc
".*"
None,      Up,   Button4, 8
None,      Down, Button5, 8
Control_L, Up,   Control_L|Button4
Control_L, Down, Control_L|Button5
Shift_L,   Up,   Shift_L|Button4
Shift_L,   Down, Shift_L|Button5

    (the 8 at the end of the second and third line are the acceleration numbers, 3 is default)

    Then add imwheel --kill --buttons "4 5" as a startup application:

    startup screenshot

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  2. May seem obvious but there is also the possibility of increasing scroll on a per-application basis, which may be all you need.

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  3. Cannot comment (only 31 of 50 needed reputation), so I have to write this as an answer:

    imwheel works for Ubuntu 16.04, but the above answers destroys the Ctrl+Mousewheel from zooming text, which for some of us is commonly used.

    The solution is to provide it for both Ctrl keys:

    ".+"
    @Exclude

".*chrome.*"
    @Priority=100
    None,      Up,   Button4, 3
    None,      Down, Button5, 3
    Shift_L,   Up,   Shift_L|Button4
    Shift_L,   Down, Shift_L|Button5
    Shift_R,   Up,   Shift_R|Button4
    Shift_R,   Down, Shift_r|Button5
    Control_L, Up,   Control_L|Button4
    Control_L, Down, Control_L|Button5
    Control_R, Up,   Control_R|Button4
    Control_R, Down, Control_R|Button5

    The Exclude section is required so that it does NOT affect other apps (no idea why it would, but it does).

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  4. Configuring imwheel does not work well for me in Ubuntu 20.04. Changing ~/.imwheel from

    None,      Up,   Button4, 1
None,      Down, Button5, 1

    to

    None,      Up,   Button4, 3
None,      Down, Button5, 3

    gives (me) a bad scrolling experience because the faster scrolling is achieved by scrolling in "jumps", not in a floating, faster manner.

    However, I have a Logitech Wireless MX Master mouse and use Solaar (v1.0.1) to configure it. When configuring the mouse in Solaar, I can select "Wheel resolution" which gives me a much better and faster floating scroll experience.

    screenshot of Solaar configuration

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  5. On my ThinkPad, to change the scroll speed using the TrackPoint, inspired by other answers here, I did

    xinput list

    and found the TrackPoint to be id 14, so continued with

    xinput list-props 14

    under which I saw libinput Scrolling Pixel Distance. I set this using

    xinput set-prop 14 'libinput Scrolling Pixel Distance' x

    where x could be values between 10 and 50 (I experimented), lower values meaning faster scrolling.

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