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Issues with scrollbars, mouse scrollwheels, and touchpad gestures used for scrolling

Scrollbars, scrollwheels, and touchpad gestures are often used for moving through web pages, documents, code, and other large amounts of data. Any question regarding problems with scrollbars(onscreen areas dragged to move page display), and scroll wheels or touchpad gestures(Convenient ways for scrolling without dragging a scrollbar) are accepted, including configuration, or troubleshooting thereof.

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Is there anyway to enable system wide inverse scrolling?

Is there any way to enable inverse scrolling like on Mac OSX?
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wsl terminal has no scroll

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 in Windows Subsystem Linux. But it suddenly stopped me from scrolling up and down. For example, when you want to know how the command tar works so you type tar --help, the result is so long that you should scroll up and down…
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Make Overlay Scroll Bars always on?

I think the overlay scrollbars that come up in menus and the Nautilus file manager work really well, especially with my touchscreen (it doesn't allow gestures, rather bittersweet). I've found ways to disable them, but is there a way to do the…
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MacOS-like Elastic Scrolling in GNOME?

I just saw a differing question about scrolling in GNOME and it reminded me that there is no elastic scrolling in GNOME, which completely changes the feel of my computer. How do you make it so when you scroll all the way to the top of the page, it…
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Not able to scroll in Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS. Touchpad settings are missing under Mouse & Touchpad

Image of Mouse & Touchpad settings Edit: I have to bring my pointer to the scroll bar, press left click and then I am able to go up and down the page. I did some research regarding my problem, most of them recommend to disable or enable edge…
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two finger scroll gone after changing click functionality

So my touchpad click functionality did not work properly. It was somewhat (it's still acting a little funny) fixed now by another solution I found here Can't hold left button on touchpad and drag in 12.04 and no right click However, after this fix,…
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Why does the first scroll action in some windows get ignored?

Whenever I move my cursor out of and into a window, the next scroll event gets ignored. This happens for (for example) Google Chrome, gnome-terminal, gnome-system-monitor and Slack, but not in Firefox, frescobaldi or Steam. How can I stop this…
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Mouse scroll problem

When I am using the mouse wheel to scroll it is very jumpy and often I am ending up on the same line or above when I try to scroll down. I have read threads about the same problem but the only solution I have seen is to unplug the mouse and plug in…
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Swap vertical and horizontal scroll axis

Is there a way to swap the vertical and horizontal scroll axes, e.g., so that when scrolling right on the touchpad it scrolls down on screen?
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How can I disable this scrolling method?

An Ubuntu scrolling method found in many apps is driving me crazy. I call it two step scrolling; you have to place the pointer in a narrow orange bar to start scrolling and then when you put pointer on the down arrow and scroll down you can't…
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Ubuntu update messed up scrolling behavior: How to fix?

I recently did an Ubuntu update to version 22.04 LTS and after this update the scrolling behavior is bugged. Before this we had two scrolling options: (1) Normal scrolling and a weird (2) "Natural scrolling". We could turn off natural scrolling so…
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Why is the first scroll of Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS reversed?

The first scroll of Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS desktop is reversed after some scrolling inactivity. It's giving me a headache when I scroll in my code editor, it goes in a nonsensical direction. How can I fix this?
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Unsmooth scrolling

I noticed since the first time I used Ubuntu that scrolling up and down with the mouse wheel seems a bit unresponsive compared to on Windows. It still works but the difference is noticeable. Does anyone else also have this issue or know how to…
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Fast scrolling does not work

When I hold middle mouse button in Windows I have fast scrolling down or up. How can I enable it in Chromium? Thanks
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