# Desktop Scrolling sensitivity and inconsistency

**URL:** <https://discuss.kde.org/t/desktop-scrolling-sensitivity-and-inconsistency/49162>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** plasma, virtual-desktops, desktop\
**Created:** [August 5, 2026, 5:52pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/desktop-scrolling-sensitivity-and-inconsistency/49162 "2026-08-05T17:52:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![random\_guy](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@random\_guy](https://discuss.kde.org/u/random_guy)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2026, 5:52pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/desktop-scrolling-sensitivity-and-inconsistency/49162/1 "2026-08-05T17:52:59Z")

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I feel like **scrolling sensitivity** for **desktop switching** , be it in overview or pager, is **too high** and should be lower.

People often need to scroll one desktop at a time and for me i have to be careful scrolling and it doesn’t feel natural. Scrolling sensitivity is fine for other apps so i can’t lower the global sensitivity. And yes i am talking about mouse although it should be the same for touchpad scrolling too (not gestures, they work really well).  
Is there any way to lower sensitivity of desktop switching?

Also sometime scrolling once doesn’t respond and then you scroll again and it switches two desktops at a time. I guess this is a bug. Have someone encountered it?

Some Info:

```auto
Operating System: Fedora Linux 44
KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.28.0
Qt Version: 6.11.1
Kernel Version: 7.1.5-201.fc44.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 24 × 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700HX
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.3 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: Intel® UHD Graphics
Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GPU

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**Author:** ![skyfishgoo](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/skyfishgoo/32/2001_2.png) [@skyfishgoo](https://discuss.kde.org/u/skyfishgoo)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2026, 8:40pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/desktop-scrolling-sensitivity-and-inconsistency/49162/2 "2026-08-05T20:40:54Z")

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you don’t say what kind of mouse you have, but my scroll wheel has detents, and the desktops scroll at rate of one desktop per detent… its’ quite controllable.

perhaps there is a utility for fedora that does what this does for ubuntu

> **[resetmsmice](https://sourceforge.net/projects/resetmsmice/)**
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> Download resetmsmice for free. Fixes Abnormal Scroll Wheel Problems with Certain Microsoft Mice. RECENT UPDATE: some recent linux distributions that have Wayland or Xorg that use libinput have this glitch fixed, so you might not need this utility. I...

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**Author:** ![random\_guy](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@random\_guy](https://discuss.kde.org/u/random_guy)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2026, 2:38am UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/desktop-scrolling-sensitivity-and-inconsistency/49162/3 "2026-08-06T02:38:28Z")

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It’s an HP mouse 😅 and yeh detents are there but medium detents not some ultra hard  
Maybe because i am from gnome so i am feeling it even more 😅