In Os X, I can hold Shift while using the scroll wheel on the mouse to scroll horizontally instead of vertically. Is there a way to do something similar in Linux?
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I asked a similar question for Windows: http://superuser.com/questions/13763/horizontal-scrolling-shortcut-in-windows – Matthew Shanley Jul 27 '09 at 17:45
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2I'd imagine that would depend on your window manager. – jason Jul 27 '09 at 19:12
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Doesn't look very difficult to do on a window manager level. I guess you could file a bug in metacity or kdm bugtracker... – liori Aug 15 '09 at 02:38
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See http://askubuntu.com/a/883789/41425 – Ondra Žižka Feb 15 '17 at 22:04
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For a lot of things like this, xmodmap is useful, but I don't think it can remap keyboard+mouse combinations. However, you might have some luck using imwheel. It's actually fairly powerful - you can customize to have different mappings in different windows! For example, here's the first section of the sample file included in the source tarball:
"^mutt.*"
None, Up, Up
None, Down, Down
Control_L, Up, Page_Up
Control_L, Down, Page_Down
This will apply to mutt (or rather, windows with titles matching that pattern). The first field is keyboard modifiers for the input event, the second is mouse button/wheel input event, and the third column is output events. So, the first one maps wheel up to keyboard up, and the third maps left control+wheel up to page up.
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You could macro the same combination to do the similar action, you would need an alternative to AutoHotKey for your Linux distribution and a script dedicated to Linux.
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