Setup the mouse scroll wheel speed

"Many wireless mice scroll wheel begins to work normally once unplugged the USB and plug in again."
= worked for me !!!
Thanks

333onk,
This is not my script. You can download it and see what inside.

Your program will change the mouse wheel speed which was way to slow on my Logitech wireless mouse. But still have a problem with the mouse behavior. When scrolling, there is no movement of the mouse for 3 to 5 turns, then it will move but then again have go 3 to 5 turns again. Am I having problems because I don\’t have the proper drivers?
x32 Linux Mint 18.1 Mate

Roger S,
Did you try unplug=>plug your mouse?
Maybe should try install another kernel

I did try unplugging and plugging in my mouse. I am a newbie to Linux, had the store install Mint, Though I did update myself from 18 to 18.1. I don\’t know what \”kernel\” means.

Roger S,
Kernel have drivers for most popularecent devices. Try install 4.6 and may be 4.10
https://mintguide.org/tags/kernel/
Try 4.6.6 first. Follow instructions. After reboot unplug and plug your mice. And check.

Would it help first to know which kernel I already have? How would I check that?

Roger S,
Type in terminal:

uname -a

I have 4.4.0

Roger S,
I know))) just try another kernel, you can change it via linux mint settings as well.
Menu>update manager>view>kernels.
Just click on kernel and press install. Then reboot PC. Check uname -a again

The warning kind of scares me. I do not know how to recover a non-booting computer.

Roger S,
Do this from linux mint sethings. And all will good, don\’t worry

There are several versions available in the Mint settings 4.4, 4.8, 4.10

Good, install 4.8… reboot.. check….

I am installing 4.8.0-51 now

Yes)))

Re-booting now

Mouse still acts the same with the new kernel. Try another?

Why not

And check
uname -a

Trying 4.10.0-20 now

Still the same – uname -a shows a successful install. The mouse is about 3 years old now, if that makes a difference. It worked fine with the Centos operating system I first had on this computer, if I remember right. This was my secondary computer and I never did actually use it much because I was pretty lazy about learning Linux. When my primary went down I had the store change me to Mint because they were saying it was easier to learn.

Roger S,
I can\’t say for sure why you have such a problem. perhaps your mouse is poorly supported. I have such a problem has never been as in your case. about the centos system is more suitable for servers and not for home use. maybe you should try – kernels or 4.0 or 3.9?

I\’ve got to give up for the night. Perhaps I\’ll just go buy a new mouse, one that says it is Linux supported. But I\’ll try those kernels first.

Thanks for the help.

This was a great fix for 18.1 Cinnamon, thanks! I set mine to 5 on my desktop, but 4 worked just fine on my laptop. This is why I love Linux so much, the best help on the web!

but how to get the "wheelies" GUI after the initial script? I can't run the imwheel-script.sh afterward initial pull from the URL

The script works fine, however it was breaking my back/forth side buttons.
I fixed it by changing
imwheel -kill
to
imwheel -kb "4 5"
in the script. It basically tells imwheel to only affect the wheel, hence -b flag with "4 5" options for up/down scroll respectively.

thanks, this worked perfect in 18.3!

Didn’t work for me on 19.2 Xfce 🙁

For me it works when I turn the mouse off and on again.

It’s an old article, but it’s for those of you who are still watching.
The download path of imwhee-script.sh has been changed.
And for debugging, I think it’s easy to find the cause when the bottom is a little more problematic than the command input written above.
The final command is as follows.

cd ~/ && wget http://www.nicknorton.net/mousewheel.sh -O imwheel-script.sh && sudo chmod +x imwheel-script.sh && sh imwheel-script.sh