My mouse wheel behaves very well only within evince I have the following trouble. When switching into uncontinous view mode, I cannot switch to previous page (mouse up) nor to next page (mouse down). I use ubuntu 11.10 with evince 3.2.1-0ubuntu2 from offical repos.
I though this was not implemented, now the funny thing is, on my laptop also running 11.10 this works! So where should I look in order to restore desired behaviour?
I think I was a bit heedless, it works when I disable continuous mode and viewing with "best-fit" zoom level. (It works only within the best-fit mode, when switching to 50% or something similar it does not work).
To change modes click the box displaying the zoom percentage.
go to the hamburger menu on the top right - there is an option "continuous" there. That should fix it!
There is a weird interaction between "scroll continuously" and "zoom" here. If you have "scroll continuously" off, then the action of the mouse-scroll wheel (or arrow keys) depends on the zoom level.
If zoom level is "fit page" or lower (in %), then you can scroll through pages. If zoom level is above that (even though it may look like the page fits onto the screen fine), the mouse-wheel scrolls only within a page, and the only way to get to other pages seems to be to enter the page number in the text box at top right. Although the behavior makes some sense, it's frustrating if you don't know it and cannot seem to navigate to any other page.