Scrollbars Are Becoming a Problem

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  • pa11y

    Pa11y is your automated accessibility testing pal

  • And educate himself just a tiny little bit? ;)

    Then in his next web project, he just might use https://github.com/pa11y/pa11y and make the world a better place!

  • mouse-scroll-wheel-acceleration-userspace

    Mouse scroll wheel acceleration in user space

  • Regarding quickly scrolling around in a large document, there is also scroll wheel acceleration, i.e. the users finger scroll speed is not just a linear function mapped onto the software scroll speed but rather it can accelerate.

    MacOS, iOS and Android have this anyway, and a few custom software as well.

    I implemented a cross platform user-space variant of this, to get mouse scroll wheel acceleration. You can even use this in addition to the native scroll wheel acceleration on MacOS.

    https://github.com/albertz/mouse-scroll-wheel-acceleration-u...

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  • Regarding quickly scrolling around in a large document, there is also scroll wheel acceleration, i.e. the users finger scroll speed is not just a linear function mapped onto the software scroll speed but rather it can accelerate.

    MacOS, iOS and Android have this anyway, and a few custom software as well.

    I implemented a cross platform user-space variant of this, to get mouse scroll wheel acceleration. You can even use this in addition to the native scroll wheel acceleration on MacOS.

    https://github.com/albertz/mouse-scroll-wheel-acceleration-u...

  • tg

    `telegram-cli` for Telegram IM (by kenorb-contrib)

  • This one is made with Qt: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop I remembered this one.

    But having checked clients for other platforms they are not made with Qt. You can check them all here: https://telegram.org/apps

  • ddccontrol

    DDC Control

  • ddcutil

    Control monitor settings using DDC/CI and USB

  • MonitorControl

    🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs.

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  • Monitorian

    A Windows desktop tool to adjust the brightness of multiple monitors with ease

  • AltSnap

    Maintained continuation of Stefan Sundin's AltDrag

  • The only solution I've found for addressing this in any meaningful way is AltSnap[0], which lets me avoid needing to find window borders for any resizing or moving operations.

    [0]: https://github.com/RamonUnch/AltSnap/releases

  • twinkle-tray

    Easily manage the brightness of your monitors in Windows from the system tray

  • Monitorian requires a subscription for hotkeys and CLI, unfortunately.

    Twinkle Tray is an alternative: https://github.com/xanderfrangos/twinkle-tray

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