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Felix Dombek
Asked: 2012-04-03 10:39:32 +0800 CST

Change mouse wheel scroll speed in Chrome on 12.04 (edit starter bar commandline)

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I want to increase the mouse wheel scroll speed in Google Chrome on Ubuntu 12.04.

I've read How to change my mouse wheel scroll rate?, I'm on Unity though, how can I edit the commandline for the Chrome icon in the starter bar?

google-chrome mouse-scroll 12.04

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  1. Best Answer

    The .desktop files you are looking for are stored in /usr/share/applications/


    To change the mouse wheel speed open the .desktop file:
    sudo -i gedit /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop

    and then go the 'Desktop Entry' section and look for following line (mine is on line 108):
    Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome

    and change it to (you can use any value you like instead of 150):
    Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --scroll-pixels=150 %U


    Hint: if you use Chromium instead of Google Chrome, edit the chromium-browser.desktop file ;)

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