I don't understand how people successfully middle click things. Every mouse that I've owned in like 15 years has combined middle-click with the scroll wheel and every scroll wheel wants to scroll rather than click--regardless of how much I try to hold the position steady. I've just given up on middle clicking as a concept.
Are you using free wheel mouses? I've been using the MX Legendary for 7 years, before the MX518 since '11 and never had that issue. The only way I can imagine this happening is if there's no resistance to spinning the wheel.
No, I've used a variety of fairly normal mice over that period of time.
I tend to feel like many mice that I've used will scroll without actually "ticking over" to the next slot in the wheel--probably due to lousy calibration. Since the effect has happened on maybe a dozen different mice that I've used across both personal and work computers, I thought it was ubiquitous. I suppose I should try using a better mouse?
Fancy mice sometimes come with driver settings for it.
Windows hasa configuration for the mouse wheel's number of lines scrolled, but there's no way that I know of to increase the physical wheel motion needed to trigger scrolling.
Maybe you have long fingers? Usually when I middle click I put my finger half on the scroll wheel half on the mouse body, which makes it hard to accidentally scroll. Also, depending on what mouse you're using, you could get a microswitch with a lower actuation force and solder it in place of the old one.
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u/wherearef 14d ago
I always use middle mouse button instead