# Scrolling Improvements **URL:** \ **Category:** Help & Support\ **Tags:** feature-request\ **Created:** [December 8, 2025, 2:59am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/scrolling-improvements/57990 "2025-12-08T02:59:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ASUNDER](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/asunder/32/59834_2.png) [@ASUNDER](https://resource.dopus.com/u/ASUNDER)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2025, 2:59am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/scrolling-improvements/57990/1 "2025-12-08T02:59:43Z")
Some requests for scrolling: - Please add a “free scroll” when pressing the middle mouse button, like browsers have. ![Free Scroll](https://resource.dopus.com/uploads/default/original/3X/5/5/550ce23bcb9b8fe1c541f0cc4c5a9051be0767a1.jpeg) You could scroll by moving the mouse. MM button again to escape from that mode. It would work on any area in the lister outside of the name column, which would still be able to be the “open in new tab” event. Or even mm button press right on the scrollbar itself would be ok too. - Please add an option to accelerate horizontal scrolling. User would configure how many lines per command in the settings. Windows only has vertical scroll options cause reasons. - Please add scrolling hotkeys. A page left/right, same as page up/down but for horiztonal scrolling. But a better hotkey would be a scroll to prev/next column. I would put that on my left/right arrow keys. Push the right arrow key it will jump (scroll horizontally right) to the next column, butting it up to the first column that is frozen. Left key = previous column (move left). - Scroll to sorted: Whatever column is active for sorting, the page up/down now selects the next type of that column (whatever doesn’t match the current selection is the target). Example: I have a .jpg currently selected. The lister is currently sorted by file type extension. There are twenty jpgs in this folder. I push page down. It skips those jpgs and jumps to the first png file (including scrolling to it if necessary, scrolling to have that item at the top of the lister). Page up jumps back to the first jpg. Shift + page down selects all of that type. Or I have 5 files created today. Date created is currently sorted. I push page down and now the first yesterday file is selected, etc. This would be killer. 😎 ---
**Author:** ![jfour18](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/jfour18/32/66032_2.png) [@jfour18](https://resource.dopus.com/u/jfour18)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2025, 3:42am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/scrolling-improvements/57990/2 "2025-12-08T03:42:12Z")
[https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=27673](https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=27673) ---
**Author:** ![ASUNDER](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/asunder/32/59834_2.png) [@ASUNDER](https://resource.dopus.com/u/ASUNDER)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/scrolling-improvements/57990/3 "2025-12-08T17:21:28Z")
Hi, thanks for that. I looked around for solutions before posting the requests so I’ve already seen that. In the video the acceleration seems to be too much and I don’t like having the mouse cursor and also an icon. The way google chrome does it is perfect. I wonder if it uses a windows api. But the real gems would be the left/right by column and the page/up down by column sort. ---
**Author:** ![ASUNDER](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/asunder/32/59834_2.png) [@ASUNDER](https://resource.dopus.com/u/ASUNDER)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 1:55am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/scrolling-improvements/57990/4 "2025-12-21T01:55:31Z")
We got page up/down by column sort! 😀😀😀 ![Prev Sort Field](https://resource.dopus.com/uploads/default/original/3X/6/5/65be4aa0880b3b624592fb8d4e5c885c80a2b2c9.jpeg) Works like a charm! 🥰🥰😊😊😊💗💗💗💗💗😊😊😊😊 Now I just wonder how to do Shift + Page Down to select all of that column type. Hmm.. maybe that’s possible by adding something to the new command. ---
**Author:** ![Jon](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/jon/32/12713_2.png) [@Jon](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Jon)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 8:16am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/scrolling-improvements/57990/5 "2025-12-21T08:16:34Z")
Select SIMILAR=sortfield ---
**Author:** ![John\_Smith](https://resource.dopus.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/d78d45/32.png) [@John\_Smith](https://resource.dopus.com/u/John_Smith)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/scrolling-improvements/57990/6 "2025-12-21T15:42:09Z")
there's definitely a need for this feature to be built in, would make the experience much nicer for people who actually tend to use autoscroll ---
**Author:** ![Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/leo/32/69732_2.png) [@Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Leo)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 4:10pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/scrolling-improvements/57990/7 "2025-12-21T16:10:55Z")
Autoscroll is usually a feature of the mouse driver, which should (if assigned to a mouse button) work on any window with a scrollbar without needing to configure individual applications. ---
**Author:** ![ASUNDER](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/asunder/32/59834_2.png) [@ASUNDER](https://resource.dopus.com/u/ASUNDER)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/scrolling-improvements/57990/8 "2025-12-22T01:21:37Z")
> [@John\_Smith](#): > > there's definitely a need for this feature to be built in, would make the experience much nicer for people who actually tend to use autoscroll I would agree, autoscroll is a good thing. For webpages I press the middle mouse button, barely move the mouse down and let go. I looked for an autoscroll tool for windows and gave up when I encountered the guy that asks for a monthly subscription fee for his auto scroll tool. The same middle mouse button scroll for Dopus would be nice. My pdf editor program has the same mm button press scroll too. Click the button, move the mouse down slightly and let go. There you go, autoscroll. But for Dopus you don’t read text, just names of files, so it’s not really the same, except for the viewer pane where you could use it. There’s probably a universal windows auto scroll tool out there. An autohotkey script maybe. powertoys or sysinternals doesn’t have it. They have some other neat mouse tools though. Even a paid for one, but a subscription fee for that is too far. Binary Fortress - Display Fusion doesn’t have it. Corsiar doesn’t have it, Listary doesn’t have it. Nirsoft doesn’t have it. ---
**Author:** ![Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/leo/32/69732_2.png) [@Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Leo)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 6:22am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/scrolling-improvements/57990/9 "2025-12-22T06:22:03Z")
> [@ASUNDER](#): > > There’s probably a universal windows auto scroll tool out there. It’s built in to most decent mouse drivers. ---
**Author:** ![ASUNDER](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/asunder/32/59834_2.png) [@ASUNDER](https://resource.dopus.com/u/ASUNDER)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 10:09am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/scrolling-improvements/57990/10 "2025-12-22T10:09:48Z")
Auto scroll? As in the automatic, steady scroll down a page for reading? Think when this corsair mouse gives out I’ll get me one of those fancy mice with the side scroll. ![Logitech Mouse](https://resource.dopus.com/uploads/default/original/3X/9/8/98f865d64058e2ee6586694f1521fb08980fb1ad.jpeg) They don’t have enough buttons though, so that’s not a good tradeoff. ---
**Author:** ![galaxyhub](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/galaxyhub/32/42793_2.png) [@galaxyhub](https://resource.dopus.com/u/galaxyhub)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 11:15am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/scrolling-improvements/57990/11 "2025-12-22T11:15:18Z")
> [@ASUNDER](#): > > ![Logitech Mouse](https://resource.dopus.com/uploads/default/original/3X/9/8/98f865d64058e2ee6586694f1521fb08980fb1ad.jpeg) Can reccommend the latest model, MX Master 4, there is an Action Ring that can be asssigned to a button to replace physical buttons. ![image](https://resource.dopus.com/uploads/default/original/3X/8/b/8bd50ef638cff9b77f268e02538b2a867e356de8.png) ---
**Author:** ![Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/leo/32/69732_2.png) [@Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Leo)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 12:10pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/scrolling-improvements/57990/12 "2025-12-22T12:10:18Z")
I'm surprised if Corsair don't have it as an option, since their mouse and keyboard drivers are very flexible. Unless Logitech have a patent on it or something. Another option is binding mouse buttons to wheel up/down, cursor up/down, or page up/down. Assuming the buttons repeat when held down, you can scroll using those until the button is released. Page up/down is quite nice, IMO, while keeping the regular mouse wheel for normal, smaller scrolling. ---
**Author:** ![ASUNDER](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/asunder/32/59834_2.png) [@ASUNDER](https://resource.dopus.com/u/ASUNDER)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 1:50pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/scrolling-improvements/57990/13 "2025-12-22T13:50:15Z")
> [@galaxyhub](#): > > Can reccommend the latest model, MX Master 4, there is an Action Ring that can be asssigned to a button to replace physical buttons. Interesting. I was going to complain about two missing buttons, but hmm.. I got the Corsair Nightsword. Check out all these buttons: ![Nightsword](https://resource.dopus.com/uploads/default/original/3X/0/6/066ec48e979adf5989a5210ba830fd99000f7e53.jpeg) I can rip around any tabbed program. But this new max 4, the free mouse wheel or ticky, side wheel, rechargeable wireless, and that shortcut wheel. That might be enough to be worth the loss of two buttons. The $170 CAN price tag, yikes. ---
**Author:** ![galaxyhub](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/galaxyhub/32/42793_2.png) [@galaxyhub](https://resource.dopus.com/u/galaxyhub)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/scrolling-improvements/57990/14 "2025-12-22T14:34:47Z")
there is an invisible haptics button as well on the MX 4, press in where the thumb rests. ---
**Author:** ![ASUNDER](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/asunder/32/59834_2.png) [@ASUNDER](https://resource.dopus.com/u/ASUNDER)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 11:56am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/scrolling-improvements/57990/15 "2025-12-31T11:56:53Z")
> [@Jon](#): > > Select SIMILAR=sortfield I’ve used this a few times. It seems that it only selects the ones that are currently visible on the screen. The other types in the particular group, that should be selected, are not included in the selection. Is this on purpose? ---
**Author:** ![Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/leo/32/69732_2.png) [@Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Leo)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/scrolling-improvements/57990/16 "2025-12-31T16:07:30Z")
> [@ASUNDER](#): > > It seems that it only selects the ones that are currently visible on the screen. Works here. I tried sorting by the extension column in System32, selecting a DLL and running the command. It selected several thousand other DLL files. ---
**Author:** ![ASUNDER](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/asunder/32/59834_2.png) [@ASUNDER](https://resource.dopus.com/u/ASUNDER)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 5:16pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/scrolling-improvements/57990/17 "2025-12-31T17:16:24Z")
I was using the wrong hotkey. It works fine, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![ASUNDER](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/asunder/32/59834_2.png) [@ASUNDER](https://resource.dopus.com/u/ASUNDER)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 4:08am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/scrolling-improvements/57990/18 "2026-03-05T04:08:03Z")
I got that mouse now. The build is way better than my old mouse. But the main thing I got it for, the free wheel scroll wheel, is really disappointing. Oh it will scroll freely, free as a bird. But software still graduates the scroll bar, no matter what the mouse wheel does. Even though the hardware rolls freely, the software still doesn’t. \*sigh 😣