[HOME]9:24 AM Jan 7, 2024

Scroll Inactive Windows

I had to replace my mouse. Bought one at the dollar store that I thought was wireless. Should have read the package more carefully. Its a “VX Gaming” mouse. It lights up and cycles through the colours.

It seemed to bit flaky first but I went into the mouse settings. Just type it in search or go to Settings -> Devices -> Mouse. Adjusted the settings a bit for my tastes. You can adjust the buttons, speed, size and so on. To the right under the “Related settings” heading you have more options.

Right now I'm only interested in one setting, “Scroll inactive windows when I hover over them”. I had it disabled for some reason. What does it do. It does what it claims. It allows you to scroll through a window open in the background.

Lets say I had a browser window open to a page and I had a second program open on top of that. If I hover my mouse cursor over the browser window in the background and scroll with the mouse wheel nothing happens. I have to click on the background browser window to bring it up front and make it active. With this setting on I can scroll through it without clicking on it to make it active.

Even with “File Explorer” open, if this is disabled, one side of the window will be active but while hovering, scrolling down with your mouse on the other panel will not work.

I like it enabled.