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Make Gnome/GTK scroll bars always follow the cursor

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Gnome (or GTK) has introduced something I would personally hesitate to call a feature, since it looks and behaves like a bug, where when you grab a scroll bar thumb you're suddenly no longer moving it at the speed of your cursor (i.e. the way everything else in the entire mouse interface paradigm behaves) but you instead start moving it at some arbitrary slower speed. Apparently it's called *Smooth Scrolling* . This creation makes it difficult for me to scroll, because even if I hadn't found its actual design decisions highly questionable, it almost certainly also has a defective implementation which makes it needlessly disruptive — hence my question: **How do I turn this off?** The linked answer from 2020 above is to a distinctly different question, but mentions that it was not possible to disable it at the time. It seemed like a good idea to ask specifically for how to do this.
Asked by Andreas (573 rep)
Mar 19, 2025, 03:43 AM
Last activity: Mar 20, 2025, 02:10 AM