Increase mouse wheel scroll speed - Ask Ubuntu

Increase mouse wheel scroll speed - Ask Ubuntu

Install imwheel with the following command or from the Software Center:

$ sudo apt-get install imwheel  

Create (if necessary) and edit the configfile ~/.imwheelrc with an editor of your choice (e.g. gedit). Fill in the following for increasing the scroll speed for every Command. NB: This configuration file will apply these new scroll settings to all programs, (including the terminal, which may not be what you want).

".*"  None,       Up,     Up,     3  None,       Down,   Down,   3  

If you want to only apply these settings to Chrome, for instance, use these settings instead:

".*-chrome*"  None,       Up,     Up,     3  None,       Down,   Down,   3  

The 3 is a scroll multiplier to increase the effectiveness of the scroll wheel. In the README of the project it is called "REPS". The readme states:

[ REPS ]

Reps (Repetitions) lets you say a number for how many times you want the output keysyms to be pressed. See the chart on the default bindings for the default number of reps for each modifier-combo (The chart is near the end of this document).

In other words, it is a scroll multiplier. If REPS is set to 3, that means that when your mouse wheel commands one scroll command, the software intercepts this command and sends 3 commands to the PC instead of 1, thereby making it scroll 3 times farther, or "faster".

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