Scrolling fails if mouse goes at extreme right instinctively

asked 2015-01-10 09:54:52 +0000

While I am browsing internet and if I need to scroll vertically using mouse, I take my mouse at the extreme right of the screen instinctively (given that vertical scroll bar is at right), and when I try to scroll down, it fails. I have to shift the mouse pointer left for a millimeter at least so that the mouse pointer falls right on the scroll bar and then I can scroll. It is very annoying if you scroll using mouse and you have to shift the mouse a little left every time. If I use the browser in fullscreen mode, the issue goes away. Is there a solution for the problem?

answered 2015-01-11 15:19:06 +0000

Adaephon
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On Linux GUIs the action taken by the application when pressing a mouse button (the scroll wheel just sends repeated clicks for buttons 4 and 5) usually depends on the window element the mouse cursor is on. When you got to the extreme right your mouse cursor is on the border of the window, which does not actually belong to the application itself.

Aside from just not moving to the right, disabling the window borders might be the simplest solution. Fortunately i3 provides a feature to disable just the borders on the edge of the screen while keeping borders between windows.

Just set

hide_edge_borders vertical

in your ~/.i3/config and reload your configuration (for example by running i3-msg reload if you do not have it mapped to a key). Now scrolling should work even if you move to the very right (plus, you gain a few pixels in window width).