How to Update Ubuntu Scrolling Speed
It's strange that there's no default GUI provided for us to update the scroll speed on Ubuntu, this is one of the more obvious configuration options missing.
We will use imwheelto adjust the scroll speed of different applications.
First create the configuration file:
$ touch ~/.imwheelrc
$ vim ~/.imwheelrc
And paste the following configuration into it
"^google-chrome$"
None, Up, Button4, 4
None, Down, Button5, 4
Shift_L, Up, Shift_L|Button4, 4
Shift_L, Down, Shift_L|Button5, 4
Control_L, Up, Control_L|Button4
Control_L, Down, Control_L|Button5
"^google-chrome$"section is the application for which we want to update the scroll speed. To get the name of the application, we have to enter the bash command:
$ xprop WM_CLASS | grep -o '"[^"]*"' | head -n 1
Then click on the application and the name will appear in our terminal.
In the above configuration, Button4 scrolls up and Button5 scrolls down.
To change the scroll speed, edit Nonethe number after the comma in the line that begins with , in our case that's 4 for both scroll up and scroll down.
Save the configuration file and install imwheel:
$ sudo apt install imwheel
Now launch imwheel:
$ imwheel -b "4 5"
If imwheelalready running on the machine, we may have to stop that process before starting it:
$ killall imwheel
$ imwheel -b "4 5"
The reason we pass in -b "4 5"the flag is that we only want to target specific buttons on the mouse, otherwise it would block the side buttons of the mouse (back, forward, etc).
Each ~/.imwheelrctime you edit , you must re-run the command:
$ killall imwheel
$ imwheel -b "4 5"
If we don't want fine-grained control over using different scroll speeds for different applications, we can set the scroll speed for all applications with a configuration similar to this
".*"
None, Up, Button4, 4
None, Down, Button5, 4
Shift_L, Up, Shift_L|Button4, 4
Shift_L, Down, Shift_L|Button5, 4
Control_L, Up, Control_L|Button4
Control_L, Down, Control_L|Button5
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