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I am most happy to report that, as well as this switch working beautifully in my Arch KDE X11 session [which was active for all my earlier posts above], atm i am logged into my Arch KDE Wayland session, in which this switch continues to work perfectly [my V Snappie is herein running as a full-wayland app via my already-present other switch
--ozone-platform-hint=auto
].Happy happy!
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Hello everyone. I'm the one who wrote the guide on Medium (and the comment on the chromium issue). The guide became a lot more popular than I anticipated and I'm trying to trace all the referrals to see where this was posted. This flag exists since 2013 and the code that disables the scrolling is here. Also people have been reporting that by compiling Chromium without that if statement, autoscrolling was working just fine on Linux. Basically all these where known but no one managed to put all the pieces together.
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Also I'm saying this again and again but the only way to possibly have an option for this in the future (and don't have to use flags) is to star this Chromium bug. If it stays with only 10-20 stars, no one from Chromium is going to even read it.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1281028
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@1nikolas said in Middle button scroll:
no one from Chromium is going to even read it
Я знаю, что разработчики Vivaldi иногда вносят изменения в Chromium. Надо заставить их решить эту проблему
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@1nikolas said in Middle button scroll:
This flag exists since 2013
Oh gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, now that i know this, i feel pretty angry! All these years that i could have actually had native Linux chromium MMB-AS, except for this IMO dumb decision by the chromium devs to block it.
@1nikolas said in Middle button scroll:
I'm the one who wrote the guide on Medium (and the comment on the chromium issue)
Thank you for doing so !
@jon @Ruarí Is this viable for you to do, next time you build?
compiling Chromium without that if statement, autoscrolling was working just fine on Linux
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@guigirl Actually it's much better to add an option for this because autoscroll conflicts with the X11 pasting feature (you can read more on my guide). That's why it's disabled in the first place.
I read a little bit about how Runtime Enabled Features work (which is what the flag enables) and it should be very easy for Chromium devs to convert this to a flag (chrome://flags), there is already the code for all this. That's why I ask you to just star the issue.
Also by adding this option, Electron apps (like Discord, Slack and many more) could also use this in the future.
If Vivaldi devs can add an option for this, that's fine. But enabling it by default could be problematic (they can maybe enable it only on Wayland?)
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@1nikolas said in Middle button scroll:
autoscroll conflicts with the X11 pasting feature (you can read more on my guide).
Yes i know that some people say this, but i tested today in both X11 & Wayland, specifically using combinations of MMB-pasting & MMB-scrolling. I did not have a single problem, everything worked nicely for me. When doing the paste in a text field, yes it also triggers the scroll, but this is NOT any practical problem coz all you then do is cancel the scroll by immediately LMB-clicking. It's really simple. Tbh i just don't understand why some Linux people seem so prejudiced against this feature --- we can have our cake AND eat it, ie, MMB-pasting and MMB-scrolling.
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@guigirl On some sites unfortunately it conflicts. Like Discord for example. It doesn't de-focus the message text field and it keeps pasting when you autoscroll. Also imgur says upload failed (cause it thinks you are trying to paste an image for upload)
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@1nikolas Ah, ok, sorry.
Btw, I just saw another of your breadcrumb-trails...
I giggled when i realised who owned those eyes!
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@guigirl said in Middle button scroll:
I giggled when i realised who owned those eyes!
I had to find where these 2 views from Github come from
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@guigirl said in Middle button scroll:
@guigirl said in Middle button scroll:
Btw, I just saw another of your breadcrumb-trails...
We all middle-click scrolling fans finally get together!
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@1nikolas said in Middle button scroll:
Hello everyone. I'm the one who wrote the guide on Medium (and the comment on the chromium issue).
Thanks so much!!
The guide became a lot more popular than I anticipated and I'm trying to trace all the referrals to see where this was posted.
That confirms that a lot of people want this feature
I'm happy this helped so many people
@1nikolas said in Middle button scroll:
Also I'm saying this again and again but the only way to possibly have an option for this in the future (and don't have to use flags) is to star this Chromium bug. If it stays with only 10-20 stars, no one from Chromium is going to even read it.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1281028
Do you have a reddit account maybe? I think more people at
/r/linux
(and other related subreddits) should know about it@1nikolas said in Middle button scroll:
it should be very easy for Chromium devs to convert this to a flag (chrome://flags), there is already the code for all this.
I guess I need to create a new Vivaldi bug-report to include this option into Vivaldi ASAP!
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@Stardust said in Middle button scroll:
Do you have a reddit account maybe? I think more people at /r/linux (and other related subreddits) should know about it
I tried /r/linux but they don't accept Medium articles. But I posted it on /r/linux_gaming and it went kind of well (/r/linux_gaming is good for this because most people there have migrated from Windows)
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@guigirl said in Middle button scroll:
Tbh i just don't understand why some Linux people seem so prejudiced against this feature --- we can have our cake AND eat it
The problem is that there is no option to disable it
There should be a simple toggle in the settings to enable/disable MMB-pasting
MMB-pasting
MMB-scrolling.
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@1nikolas said in Middle button scroll:
@Stardust said in Middle button scroll:
Do you have a reddit account maybe? I think more people at /r/linux (and other related subreddits) should know about it
I tried /r/linux but they don't accept Medium articles.
Well you can create a post without link to Medium I think...
For instance not mentioning Medium at all.But I posted it on /r/linux_gaming and it went kind of well (/r/linux_gaming is good for this because most people there have migrated from Windows)
BTW there is also
r/vivaldibrowser
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@Stardust said in Middle button scroll:
BTW there is also r/vivaldibrowser
you can crosspost it yourself
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@1nikolas said in Middle button scroll:
@Stardust said in Middle button scroll:
BTW there is also r/vivaldibrowser
you can crosspost it yourself
unfortunately I don't have reddit account at the moment
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@sedative29rus said in Middle button scroll:
I was just surfing the Internet and somehow found
@1nikolas said in Middle button scroll:
I posted it on /r/linux_gaming
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@Stardust said in Middle button scroll:
I guess I need to create a new Vivaldi bug-report to include this option into Vivaldi ASAP!
Bug report was created: VB-90618