From what I can tell Apple’s otherwise awful mouse is the only one that allows for 360° scrolling with two finger swipe motion. (Their previous gen mouse had 360° scrolling with a small trackball on top but it constantly clogged up with dirt.) It’s really nice for scrolling over wide spreadsheets and other sorts of documents that take up a lot of horizontal space. (You can do two finger pinch to zoom also but it’s not as easy as it is on a trackpad where you have more surface area.)
I currently use a Logitech MS Master 3S which has a separate horizontal scroll. I don’t like x and y scrolling mapped to separate controls (it makes diagonal scrolling tedious) so I mapped that scroll wheel to zoom, and instead do 360° scrolling by pressing down the vertical scroll wheel and moving the mouse around; it works but it’s a bit clunky.
dbx12@programming.dev 1 day ago
I’m not sure if that is an universal thing or just a Linux / X11 kinda thing but I can scroll horizontally with my mouse wheel. Just hold shift and then scroll the wheel.
timroerstroem@feddit.dk 1 day ago
That works on my work PC, which runs Windows (at least, it does in most programs, not in Excel, oddly enough). So it seems to be a mostly universal thing.