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What’s your “I can’t believe other people don’t do this” hack? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by TehBamski@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Michal@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 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.

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 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