How to enable click to scroll function?

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Practically brand new Zorin user here. So far this OS has everything I need from windows, but I really miss having the ability to click the scroll wheel to move up and down a page. I found this guide: "Scroll Click for scrolling" not working (ZOS 16 Core) but the folder where it says to create the "00-mouse.conf" doesn't appear to exist on my machine. Can anyone help with this?

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Thanks to this post, I discovered a typo in that original thread. I have corrected it.
You can create the directory xorg.conf.d if it does not exist.

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OK, I managed to create that directory and got the file in there. Doesn't look like anything's changed, it still does the default paste behavior.

I just created a regular text file and assumed that the .conf part would change the filetype but now looking at the properties it's coming up as a "plain text document"

Thoughts?

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That is normal... It appears that the file is not working.
I just tested this on my machine and got the same result as you did.
Which suggests that the latest drivers have depricated that functionality.

Let me keep looking into this... I also miss this feature and at some point, I had given up on it.
Maybe time to renew the search.

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Cool, thanks for the help

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Gnome users Zorin Core Chrome Based Browser Users may have some luck with this gnome-extension:

In Firefox, just enable autoscroll from the general settings.

The above relates to browsers, not the system.
I have edited the post above to counter some of my earlier cranial density.

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Isn't that just a browser extension? Or is does it somehow affect the rest of the system as well?

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-FACEPALM-

Yes, it is a Browser... not Gnome extension...
It was late... I was tired... and a little stupid...

Edited post above.

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Lol Happens to the best of us, no worries

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Did you ever find anything out about this? Everything else about Zorin works great, but this would come in really handy when editing long documents

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I have found nothing... but I did end up installing the auto-scroll extension. Which works well in the browser.

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