Middle-click Scrolling for Linux Version

Stardust

I created a bug report to include this option into Vivaldi Settings or Vivaldi flags - VB-90618

guigirl

@Stardust

npro

@guigirl Actually it is, you just had to dig deeper

the MMB autoscroll "feature" exists for quite some time, it just didn't work for Linux, nice that if finally works .

Chrome "features" are separately listed here: https://niek.github.io/chrome-features/

/edit: wrong section :

guigirl

@npro said in Middle-click Scrolling for Linux Version:

MMB autoscroll "feature" exists for quite some time

So, from your source [new info for me]:
--enable-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll

vs my recently altered launcher [extract]:
--enable-blink-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll

I am drafting this via Snappie atm, so after posting i shall relaunch V using "your" way rather than "my new" way, to test your bold claim...

guigirl

@npro said in Middle-click Scrolling for Linux Version:

nice that if finally works

It does NOT work.

We still need to use this recently-revealed new way:
--enable-blink-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll

npro

@guigirl oh wait, you are right I marked the wrong section , I'm gonna edit it

But indeed please do try

guigirl

@npro Right, so now we can see that "your" way devolves in fact to being identical to the "new" way which herein & in the Russian thread got some of us very excited & happy in recent days.

Now if only i could also find these still-strangely-hidden features, i'd be able to return to Snappie as default instead of my Nightly:

--enable-blink-features=ProperTreeStyleTabs
--enable-blink-features=StopBreakingMyBloodyPOSTSearchesFfs!

Stardust

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--enable-blink-features=FirefoxStyleAutoscrolling

RedSnt

So happy there's a solution now. Installed MX Linux yesterday and with --enable-blink-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll argument it works exactly like on windows

Stardust

@RedSnt said in Middle-click Scrolling for Linux Version:

So happy there's a solution now. Installed MX Linux yesterday and with --enable-blink-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll argument it works exactly like on windows

Yes! And we're still waiting for a built-in setting in Vivaldi.

bowow

So glad I found this thread. The lack of this feature is one of the most frustrating things for me personally when using Linux as a desktop OS.

Adding --enable-blink-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll as a launch parameter enabled this feature for me and now I scroll pages as efficiently as I can on Windows. I hope the developers add this option into the settings menu soon!

Stardust

@bowow said in Middle-click Scrolling for Linux Version:

So glad I found this thread. The lack of this feature is one of the most frustrating things for me personally when using Linux as a desktop OS.

Yes, we were struggling without this option for years. I edited the first post with this command so new users would know that there is a workaround right away without reading tho whole thread.

Adding --enable-blink-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll as a launch parameter enabled this feature for me and now I scroll pages as efficiently as I can on Windows. I hope the developers add this option into the settings menu soon!

+1

Cretec

@bowow Brave added this to brave://flags as an experimental option. I would love for that to happen with Vivaldi as I don't like or use Brave, beyond testing.

Stardust

@Cretec said in Middle-click Scrolling for Linux Version:

@bowow Brave added this to brave://flags as an experimental option. I would love for that to happen with Vivaldi as I don't like or use Brave, beyond testing.

For real?

Vivaldi team, we should hurry to add this option to the settings ASAP!!! In order to be the first chromium browser that supports Middle-click Scrolling for Linux!

Cretec

Here it is in Brave settings. Come on Vivaldi Team, let's get this done!!

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lfisk

@Cretec It's been available for some time now as a command line option "--enable-blink-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll". It works really nice too

Cretec

@lfisk No doubt and I use it. Which is why I feel it should be at least in the Experimental flags as well, since essentially that is what is doing.

One thing I notice with the command line method is when I open PWAs it gives me a warning every launch.

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Now that doesn't really bother me too much, just a minor annoyance. However, I have a lot of people I have helped move over to Linux, and it always scares them.

It certainly does the trick for now, just feel it should be in the settings.

Stardust

@Cretec said in Middle-click Scrolling for Linux Version:

Here it is in Brave settings. Come on Vivaldi Team, let's get this done!!

I guess they were reading this thread and have added experiment settings first

Cretec

@Stardust said in Middle-click Scrolling for Linux Version:

@Cretec said in Middle-click Scrolling for Linux Version:

Here it is in Brave settings. Come on Vivaldi Team, let's get this done!!

I guess they were reading this thread and have added experiment settings first

Indeed, that I would not doubt. First thing I did when I found out Brave had that setting was check the flags for Vivaldi. Obviously not in Chromium either.

ybjrepnfr

fwiw fyi btw

https://pointieststick.com/2024/07/05/this-week-in-kde-autoscrolling/
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/2357

whilst i can't imagine why anyone using vivaldi in linux would not activate mmb as via the --enable-blink-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll command string [once they have read this thread ofc, otherwise... how could they know?], coming soon for users of kde plasma per the link above, is going to be plasma-native mmb as:

This week in KDE: autoscrolling

Nate Automation & Systematization, This Week in KDE July 5, 2024 4 Minutes
New Features

You can now turn on the “autoscrolling” feature of the Libinput driver, which lets you scroll on any scrollable view by holding down the middle button of your mouse and moving the whole mouse (Evgeniy Chesnokov, Plasma 6.2.0. Link)