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Re: Scroll Slow. Have Fun

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That is correct. I just realized I do not have this feature on my Arch with Firefox in i3.

It's an option in Firefox, which (IIRC) is disabled by default everywhere except Windows. Look in Firefox's preferences; on the Advanced tab, it's the "Use autoscrolling" option.

It's one of the first settings I turn on in a Firefox install and I wonder why it isn't default behavior in browsers it's so convenient.

Re: Scroll Slow. Have Fun

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Trying this with different browsers on Windows highlights how bad the pan acceleration curves are in Firefox and Chrome. In Chrome there are exactly 2 speeds where this works usefully, and they're a pixel apart. In Firefox there's a small handful of them, and you have to be fairly careful with your mouse.

In Opera 12 on the other hand there's a range of about one inch of mouse movement on the screen, where you get, pixel-for-pixel, different speeds for this thing, all of them useful.

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This somehow manages my monitor to make a high pitched sound. It's an LCD monitor. It's the actual monitor making the sound. Switching to a different window or tab makes the sound top. Taking a screenshot of the tab, and closing the tab but viewing the screenshot, produces the sound.

"Some surface-mount capacitors exhibit acoustic noise when operated at frequencies in the audio range." [1] I see that this screen has alternating black and white lines. I count 43 black lines on my monitor. Assuming 60 Hz refresh rate, that is 2580 Hz in terms of the pixels being off or on, which is a perfectly audible frequency. Even with 120 Hz refresh rate, that would be 5160 which is still easily audible. Withou…

Inductors do this as well. The changing magnetic field causes the windings to vibrate, creating an audible sound. The sound my work monitor makes sounds like an inductor to me.

Re: Scroll Slow. Have Fun

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I have no idea what is going on but sure had fun scrolling slow. Well worth my time. Props to the founders for launching. It is a hard field to compete in but I am sure they will find their revenue model.

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post #5

This somehow manages my monitor to make a high pitched sound. It's an LCD monitor. It's the actual monitor making the sound. Switching to a different window or tab makes the sound top. Taking a screenshot of the tab, and closing the tab but viewing the screenshot, produces the sound.

Same here, I first thought it was the gfx card's capacitors. They usually like doing that when I use things with pixel shaders (obviously a different thing but it reminded me).

Furmark always does it to my cards. Perhaps of interest. http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-review...

Re: Scroll Slow. Have Fun

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post #69

I am lazy and (apparently) suck at scrolling smoothly, dropping this in the console worked well :) setInterval(function() { window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollTop + 5) }, 60)

I held down the "down arrow"

In Chrome, that was a bit jumpy compared to using the scroll bar.

Re: Scroll Slow. Have Fun

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post #27

To scroll super-slowly and smoothly on Windows, use the middle-click thing that spawns a little arrow-circle doodad. I'm pretty sure Linuces are inconsistent about implementing that feature, though.

Ah, thank you! My scrolling is just too spastic :)

Does anyone besides me have a problem with the pictures being too large and too close together? The mask lines were only in the top half of the screen and I could never see the entire picture onscreen as they were too large. Zoom out did nothing.

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