Mouse wheel jumpy on scrolling

Question

I have a small issue that's really annoying me and wondering if there is a possible fix for it.

im using the latest distro of Ubuntu 10.10 and when scrolling up and down pages, especially in google chrome (also within folders etc) the page flickers up and down as I scroll.

There is no issue with the mouse itself as it works fine in other operating systems, but in ubuntu 10.10 it just lacks smoothness as well as it being jumpy.

To describe exactly how it just imagine that the page has 20 scroll jumps, you would normally scroll the mouse wheel once and it would go exactly one step down the page, but if I scroll about 5 clicks, it will jump back and forth.

Hope you can understand and can help me resolve this pain in the ...

Solution 1

Above solutions didn't work for me however...

The fix for me for this (I had the problme for months!) was kinda surreal and like most folks I didn't believe it until I did it:

Turns out some MS mice have a scrollwheel bug.

Try unplugging the USB cable / dongle then plug back in.

That's it!

Now my mouse moves normally (one line at a time, not half a screen!)

This worked even though I use a 4-port screen/keyboard/mouse KVM box ! Yeah!

Solution 2

yes, unplug and replug the USB connection. it worked for me. after searching so many times for an answer, and tolerating it so long!

Solution 3

I have a dual boot Ubuntu 11.10 and Windows 7 and just added a Microsoft Wireless 3500 and when I booted with Windows it installed some drivers for it. When I went back to Ubuntu the wheel scroll was half page jumpy. I unplugged the USB dongle and plugged it back in and all was back to normal. I'm thinking there are some settings that get set in the mouse itself from the Windows driver. But the solution above of just reconnecting the mouse works for me.

Solution 4

GTK dynamically calculates a good value for mouse wheel scroll rate (number of lines to be scrolled) depending on the size of the window. Unfortunately, it does not allow any customization yet and lost of bug reports have been filed about it.

By the way, if you are interested in testing what I said, just resize the window to be so small that it displays only one line. Try scrolling and you will see that it scrolls a single line everytime you scroll the wheel.

Solution 5

For me, the fix was to clean the inside of the mouse.

The proper way to do this is to carefully take it apart and remove hair and dust that had collected near the sensor of the mouse wheel. I just blowed really hard into the gap around the wheel. It worked immediately.

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Comments

[sarvesh.lad]

same here espicially if u have a wireless mouse and the transiver is attached but ur mouse is out of range....

[Tamás Szelei]

This is crazy... it actually fixed the issue for me, while a reboot didn't. Thanks

[cantoni]

Same here. My mouse is connected on the USB of my keyboard and after unplug/plug the scroll is working absolutely fine.

[Tim Richardson]

that is very interesting. A small window scrolls in smaller jumps. Which makes it even more amazing there is no exposure to change it.

[PatKilg]

Just to throw out some extra search keywords here: This fixes the OPs issue with Microsoft Sculpt mouse in 18.04 (POP_OS). Thanks @michaelDurrant

[Jordan Enev]

My mouse is A4Tech (G3-760N). I tried all the above methods - fine tunning the software, unplugging the USB dongle, but no one worked for me. In the end, I opened and clean the mouse wheel (blew it) and now it works correctly! To be honest, it wasn't dusty, but I guess it was not easily visible by the eye or there was some kind of wheel displacement. Magic 💥

[Snowcrash]

This did not work for my generic USB wireless mouse.