Re: [libreoffice-users] [SOLVED?] stop automatic scrolling

Hi :)
lqtm :)  It's been quite a good thread imo, with useful ideas which
may lead to better work-flow and/or save a bit of money by helping be
able to fix stuff.  So it's not been a waste of time and didn't
"bother the list"

I use a track-ball at work.  At first it was really difficult to get
the finesse i am used to from using a mouse but that only took a
couple of weeks to get close enough and now i think it's even better.
One advantage is that you can do really fine-grained stuff and then
scoot really fast across vast distances by letting the ball roll with
minimal effort.  With a mouse you have to physically pick up the mouse
several times to cover the same sort of distance.  To start with i
need lots of course-corrections at the end but now i tend to hit the
target much more often.

Of course i took the ball out and found tons of fluff in there but
tipping it upside-down let most of it fall out (quite handy because i
only got the ball out in the first place by turning it upside (try not
to do that above your face or cuppa tea or keyboard!)).  One of those
cotton-buds that you shouldn't clean your ears with is good for doing
cleaning the 3 little contacts inside.

Everything people have been saying about drivers and updates is still
relevant too of course :)

The main thing is that it's good to hear you have solved the problem!! :))
Congrats and regards from
Tom :)


On 24 March 2014 01:27, Thomas <nyuwa@hb.tp1.jp> wrote:
> Good morning
> Maybe(?) I solved the mystery.
> I use a trackball instead of a mouse:
> ball in the middle, buttons left and right.
> Apparently thoses buttons do not only respond to clicking = pressing, but
> also "pulling".
> If you drag your finger across the button, if works somehow like pulling a
> mouse.
>
> I never noticed this little "trick" (at least not consciously) before.
> Maybe, if I keep my finger a little more quiet, I can also shut up and stop
> bothering the list.
>
> Sorry for the commotion!
> Thomas
>
>
>
>
>
> (2014/03/24 6:53), Dan Hall wrote:
> > I think I made a faux pas.  Sorry everyone!
> > -Dan Hall
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dan Hall [mailto:dihall@myfairpoint.net]
> > Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2014 10:16 AM
> > To: 'Kracked_P_P---webmaster'; users@global.libreoffice.org
> > Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] stop automatic scrolling
> >
> > If you press straight down on the mouse wheel and listen carefully you
> > should hear a click and then the icon (a double arrow pointing up and down
> > with a dot between them) appears.  I believe it's a mouse 'feature' so you
> > can scroll  up and down the page without holding down the left mouse
> > button.
> > I often activate that feature accidently when using the mouse wheel.
> > I'm using Windows 7.
> > -Dan Hall
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster [mailto:webmaster@krackedpress.com]
> > Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2014 9:15 AM
> > To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] stop automatic scrolling
> >
> >
> > I have had that same "uncontrolled" mouse scrolling before.  Yes it
> > seemed to be the mouse driver[s].
> >
> > Never seen that "light blue" icon before, but I rarely use Windows and
> > then it is mostly USB mice using default Windows internal drivers, not
> > drivers from any media or downloads.
> >
> > I would not want to keep scrolling when I stop moving my mouse.  I could
> > not stand it when it happened that one time.
> >
> > The only scrolling option in LO seems to be "smooth scrolling", which
> > seems to be checked as default with my DEB 64 bit install of 4.2.2.1.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 03/22/2014 11:30 PM, Tim Deaton wrote:
> > > I suspect that this is a feature of the mouse driver, and that it
> > > works in a variety of programs.
> > >
> > > I have noticed that when scrolling up or down thru a document using
> > > the scroll-wheel of the mouse.  Something I do turns on an 'automated'
> > > scroll.  I'll notice a new symbol on the screen (light blue and
> > > transparent, if I remember correctly).  If I move the mouse pointer to
> > > be horizontal with that symbol, the scrolling will stop.  If I move
> > > the pointer above the symbol, the document will scroll toward the
> > > top.  If I move the pointer below it, then the document will scroll
> > > toward the bottom.
> > >
> > > If I remember correctly, hitting [esc] will kill this 'automated' scroll.
> > >
> > > -- Tim Deaton
> > > ===========================
> > >
> > >
> > > On 3/21/2014 5:10 PM, Girvin Herr wrote:
> > > > Greetings,
> > > > I am not sure this is a LibreOffice problem.  I have seen it in other
> > > > applications, such as Firefox as well.  I think it is an unstable
> > > > mouse or mouse driver effect.  I noticed it usually occurs when I am
> > > > hovering the mouse cursor in the vertical scroll bar.  I found that
> > > > clicking somewhere in the vertical scroll bar usually stops it.  I
> > > > haven't seen it lately, but then maybe I stopped hovering the mouse
> > > > cursor in the vertical scroll bar.
> > > > Girvin Herr
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 03/21/2014 03:24 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> > > > > Hi :)
> > > > > Have you tried renaming your User Profile yet?
> > > > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile
> > > > >
> > > > > That often fixes weird things that shouldn't happen = particularly if
> > > > > they haven't always happened and just started mysteriously one day for
> > > > > no apparent reason (perhaps after adding a new Extension)
> > > > > Regards from
> > > > > Tom :)
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On 21 March 2014 09:59, Thomas Blasejewicz <nyuwa@hb.tp1.jp> wrote:
> > > > > > Good evening
> > > > > > Probably this is a stupid question, but ...
> > > > > > I noticed time and again, that LO starts scrolling and cannot be
> > > > > > stopped, until the end of the file is reached,
> > > > > > when I click below the blue rectacle on the right side scroll bar in
> > > > > > order to get just a little further down.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I have been looking, and searching the help documentation for
> > > > > > "automatic
> > > > > > scrolling" (or similar expressions), but
> > > > > > could not find yet the trick to make LO stop this. (it is really
> > > > > > annoying, when you are taken to place you don't want to go to)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > How do you stop, or customize, this behavior.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thank you.
> > > > > > Thomas
> > > > > >
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