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Horizontal scrolling w. touchpad doesn't work on linux

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I saw this post https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542690 where it seems implied that it should work, but on LMDE 5 w. firefox 98.0.2 64-bit scrolling horizontally w. touchpad doesn't work for scrolling on pages nor for scrolling the tab list at the top.

I saw this post https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542690 where it seems implied that it should work, but on LMDE 5 w. firefox 98.0.2 64-bit scrolling horizontally w. touchpad doesn't work for scrolling on pages nor for scrolling the tab list at the top.

Chosen solution

Ok well this issue is now solved. Apparently in LMDE 5 horizontal scrolling is a setting that can be enabled and is disabled by default.

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Does it have effect if you hold the Shift key ?

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donthavecow said

And did you install the touchpad driver?

This is Linux and not Windows.

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cor-el zei

Does it have effect if you hold the Shift key ?

No that inverses the vertical scrolling direction (as it would for a mouse), this is about horizontal scrolling.

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Chosen Solution

Ok well this issue is now solved. Apparently in LMDE 5 horizontal scrolling is a setting that can be enabled and is disabled by default.