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[–] DjMeas@lemm.ee 51 points 2 months ago (14 children)

Using shift + scroll wheel to horizontally scroll in a UI. Whenever I see my project manager going all the way to the bottom of the application and dragging the scrollbars to move horizontally it just kills me a bit inside haha.

[–] 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

[–] 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

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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