To control the volume by scrolling the mouse wheel you need to hold the mouse pointer over the volume icon.
A change in this functionality was requested over 10 years ago directly to the GNOME developers, the authors of the Totem application. The upstream bug report shows that this request is still outstanding. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/totem/issues/20 ** Bug watch added: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/totem/issues #20 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/totem/issues/20 ** Also affects: totem via https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/totem/issues/20 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to totem in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1846853 Title: Mouse scroll should control VOLUME NOT TIME Status in Totem: Unknown Status in totem package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I want the mouse scroll to scroll the volume up and down, not the time forward and back. This is a non-standard behavior that I consider to be a BUG within Totem, and I preferentially use VNC because of this BUG. Fix it so mouse scroll controls volume instead of time please. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/totem/+bug/1846853/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
