• Michal
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    2 months ago

    Because some mice have a secondary scroll wheel, or the scroll wheel can tilt to scroll sideways

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      I had a Logitech MX Ergo mouse that allegedly had horizontal scrolling. The wheel could tilt left and right which clicked like a button, and the screen would scroll very very slightly to the side. Worst trackball I’ve ever had.

      Just before they stopped making PCs, I saw an IBM computer with a mouse that had one of their Thinkpad clits instead of a scroll wheel. So a proper XY input. I think a blackberry ball would work too.

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      2 months ago

      the scroll wheel can tilt to scroll sideways

      I use these for switching tabs in browsers/IDEs by remapping them to Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab using Input Remapper