[SOLVED] How Do I Change The Speed of My Mouse Scrolling?

[Eric Qel-Droma]

For some reason, my MS Wireless mouse is scrolling SUPER FAST in 8.04. I've checked System --> Prefs --> Mouse, but I see no scroll wheel options there. How do I change the scrolling speed?

Thanks!

Eric

[unutbu]

xset m 3 4
Make the 3 smaller if it is still too fast.

[cmike2]

Does this command actually change the mouse wheel scroll speed? I don't notice a difference in scroll speed when I use "xset m 3 4" or "xset 1/2 4". The man page says that it affects mouse acceleration.

[unutbu]

The "xset m accel threshold" command only affects mouse pointer movement. The mouse wheel clicks and each click forward or backward is actually recorded as a mouse button press/release event, which is a different thing entirely.

It appears that how the mouse wheel clicks are handled is done on an application-by-application basis. Here are instructions for controlling mouse wheel speed in Firefox: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=59815