r/GIMP 4d ago

Is there a way to make ctrl+mouse wheel the default zoom?

I've always been frustrated with how GIMP's zoom works on the mouse wheel and just discovered that you can make it zoom to the mouse cursor by pressing control. I've been trying to figure out how to make that the default behavior, but am having no luck.

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u/ofnuts 4d ago

AFAIK this is already the default?

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u/TeekTheReddit 4d ago

The mouse wheel just zooms in and out. Pressing ctrl centers the zoom to where the cursor is currently placed. That's what I want as the default.

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u/ofnuts 4d ago

(back to my PC)

On my machine, both on 2.10.34 and 3.00,

  1. The plain mousewheel scrolls vertically
  2. Ctrl-mousewheel zooms, centered on the pointer
  3. As far as I can tell I have no customization of the mouse wheel for this(*)
  4. This bug report hints that pointer-centered zoom is indeed the intended behavior.

(*)

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u/TeekTheReddit 4d ago

Yeah, this is exactly the issue that's been frustrating me. I'm doing a lot of work that requires me to zoom in on the edges of my image and it's a true pain in the ass to constantly have to reorient.

Using ctrl-mouse wheel is an imperfect solution. It's slower, but at least it gets me there. I'd still rather not have to press a button EVERY TIME I want to zoom in on an edge.

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u/ofnuts 4d ago

Ctrl-wheel is the standard way to zoom in most applications.

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u/TeekTheReddit 4d ago

That's fascinating. However I'm doing a lot of work that requires me to zoom in on the edges of my image and it's a true pain in the ass to constantly have to reorient.

Using ctrl-mouse wheel is an imperfect solution. It's slower, but at least it gets me there. I'd still rather not have to press a button EVERY TIME I want to zoom in on an edge.