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bindlegrunt

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Registered: 2021-04-14

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Mouse wheel issues in KDE Plasma

I'm not sure if it has anything to do with KDE Plasma but when I scroll my mouse wheel, the first "click" or two of the wheel rotation does nothing then on the third rotation click, it starts scrolling whatever app I'm in.  It's driving me crazy.  it also seems like once I've started scrolling successfully, and wait a second then scroll the wheel again, the first click works.  if I wait a few seconds, then try again, the first click or two doesn't work again.  Any ideas what I can do to fix this? I'm going crazy.

Last edited by bindlegrunt (2021-05-29 21:44:02)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 76,066

Re: Mouse wheel issues in KDE Plasma

Is "whatever app I'm in" some GTK client?
"export GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS=1" to the session.

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gzyms

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Registered: 2023-11-09

Posts: 5

Re: Mouse wheel issues in KDE Plasma

You set a specific variable by adding this:

# trying to fix mouse wheel scrolling issue
# following https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=266755
GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS=1

to the file:

 /etc/environment 

making the change system-wide, or to 

~/.pam_environment

- which will apply the fix only to your user account.

More info: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=262104