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Discord no longer ships its application. /usr/bin/discord is a few lines of shell that run updater_bootstrap, which downloads Electron into the user's config directory on first start and execs it from there. So there is no binary next to the launcher to find markers around, and the path it hands over to is built out of $HOME and the version it just downloaded, which the script reader cannot resolve. Discord came out as "not Chromium" and was dropped from the list entirely. The name of the bootstrap it ships is the one thing left that says Discord, so that is the hint now.
middleclick-autoscroll
Middle-click autoscroll in every app that supports it.
Browsers, Electron apps like Discord and Spotify, Steam and anything else built on Chromium.
Install | How to use | Report a bug
Install
Arch
yay -S middleclick-autoscroll
Fedora
sudo curl -fsSL -o /etc/yum.repos.d/middleclick-autoscroll.repo \
https://loonixtools.github.io/middleclick-autoscroll/middleclick-autoscroll.repo
sudo dnf install middleclick-autoscroll
Bazzite
sudo curl -fsSL -o /etc/yum.repos.d/middleclick-autoscroll.repo \
https://loonixtools.github.io/middleclick-autoscroll/middleclick-autoscroll.repo
sudo rpm-ostree install middleclick-autoscroll
systemctl reboot
Debian, Ubuntu
sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://loonixtools.github.io/middleclick-autoscroll/KEY.gpg \
| sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/middleclick-autoscroll.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/middleclick-autoscroll.gpg] https://loonixtools.github.io/middleclick-autoscroll/deb ./" \
| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/middleclick-autoscroll.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install middleclick-autoscroll
openSUSE
sudo rpm --import https://loonixtools.github.io/middleclick-autoscroll/KEY.gpg
sudo zypper addrepo --gpgcheck --refresh \
https://loonixtools.github.io/middleclick-autoscroll/rpm middleclick-autoscroll
sudo zypper install middleclick-autoscroll
How to use
middleclick-autoscroll
Press 1. Autoscroll ✨just works✨, like on Windows.
Applications
3 lists every app it found. Space turns one on or off.
More
How it works
Chromium, Electron and CEF all have autoscroll built in, but it is off on Linux. One flag turns it on:
--enable-blink-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll
Setting that for every app by hand is a pain and breaks with updates, so this tool does it for you. New apps are picked up on their own. AppImages are covered too, without unpacking or starting them.
Some browsers want a different name. Brave and Helium ship the feature under their own, so browsers are handed all of the names at once. A name a browser does not know is ignored.
Steam is its own case. It builds the command line for its interface itself, and repairs every file that looks changed. So the flag goes into the script that starts the web helper, written to keep the file at the size and date Steam recorded. Steam finds nothing to repair, and autoscroll works in the store and the library. After a Steam update the patch is put back on its own.
Commands
middleclick-autoscroll |
The menu |
… enable |
Turn on |
… disable |
Undo everything |
… apply |
Pick up new apps |
… status |
What is covered |
… list |
All apps and how they are handled |
Build from source
make
sudo make install
Optional: msgfmt for translations, scdoc for the man page.
GPL-3.0-or-later.