diff --git a/man/feh.pre b/man/feh.pre
index ed3247a7..5557f8f7 100644
--- a/man/feh.pre
+++ b/man/feh.pre
@@ -531,16 +531,35 @@ When not in fullscreen: Scale images to screen size if they are too big.
 .
 In tiling environments, this also causes the image to be centered in the window.
 .
-.It Cm --scroll-step Ar count
+.It Cm --scroll-step Ar percent
 .
-Scroll
-.Ar count
-pixels whenever scroll_up, scroll_down, scroll_left or scroll_right is pressed.
+.Ar Percent
+of window whenever scroll_up, scroll_down, scroll_left or scroll_right is pressed.
+Note that this option accepts negative numbers in case you need to inverse the
+scroll direction; see
+.Sx KEYS CONFIG SYNTAX
+to change it permanently. You can give float number to this option. If
+.Ar percent
+is less than 1, then it will be iterpreted as
+.Ar part
+of screen. I.e. .5 and 50 are the same when provided to this option.
+.br
+Default: 5
+.
+.It Cm --scroll-page-step Ar percent
+.
+.Ar Percent
+of window whenever scroll_page_up, scroll_page_down, scroll_page_left or
+scroll_page_right is pressed.
 Note that this option accepts negative numbers in case you need to inverse the
 scroll direction; see
 .Sx KEYS CONFIG SYNTAX
 to change it permanently.
-Default: 20
+For details about what
+.Ar percent
+means and how it could be interpreted see --scroll-step.
+.br
+Default: 90
 .
 .It Cm -D , --slideshow-delay Ar float
 .
diff --git a/src/keyevents.c b/src/keyevents.c
index 83fc358b..d009ee30 100644
--- a/src/keyevents.c
+++ b/src/keyevents.c
@@ -480,42 +480,42 @@ void feh_event_handle_keypress(XEvent * ev)
 			feh_thumbnail_select_prev(winwid, 1);
 	}
 	else if (feh_is_kp(&keys.scroll_right, keysym, state)) {
-		winwid->im_x -= opt.scroll_step;;
+		winwid->im_x -= opt.scroll_step * winwid->w;
 		winwidget_sanitise_offsets(winwid);
 		winwidget_render_image(winwid, 0, 1);
 	}
 	else if (feh_is_kp(&keys.scroll_left, keysym, state)) {
-		winwid->im_x += opt.scroll_step;
+		winwid->im_x += opt.scroll_step * winwid->w;
 		winwidget_sanitise_offsets(winwid);
 		winwidget_render_image(winwid, 0, 1);
 	}
 	else if (feh_is_kp(&keys.scroll_down, keysym, state)) {
-		winwid->im_y -= opt.scroll_step;
+		winwid->im_y -= opt.scroll_step * winwid->w;
 		winwidget_sanitise_offsets(winwid);
 		winwidget_render_image(winwid, 0, 1);
 	}
 	else if (feh_is_kp(&keys.scroll_up, keysym, state)) {
-		winwid->im_y += opt.scroll_step;
+		winwid->im_y += opt.scroll_step * winwid->w;
 		winwidget_sanitise_offsets(winwid);
 		winwidget_render_image(winwid, 0, 1);
 	}
 	else if (feh_is_kp(&keys.scroll_right_page, keysym, state)) {
-		winwid->im_x -= winwid->w;
+		winwid->im_x -= opt.scroll_page_step * winwid->w;
 		winwidget_sanitise_offsets(winwid);
 		winwidget_render_image(winwid, 0, 0);
 	}
 	else if (feh_is_kp(&keys.scroll_left_page, keysym, state)) {
-		winwid->im_x += winwid->w;
+		winwid->im_x += opt.scroll_page_step * winwid->w;
 		winwidget_sanitise_offsets(winwid);
 		winwidget_render_image(winwid, 0, 0);
 	}
 	else if (feh_is_kp(&keys.scroll_down_page, keysym, state)) {
-		winwid->im_y -= winwid->h;
+		winwid->im_y -= opt.scroll_page_step * winwid->h;
 		winwidget_sanitise_offsets(winwid);
 		winwidget_render_image(winwid, 0, 0);
 	}
 	else if (feh_is_kp(&keys.scroll_up_page, keysym, state)) {
-		winwid->im_y += winwid->h;
+		winwid->im_y += opt.scroll_page_step * winwid->h;
 		winwidget_sanitise_offsets(winwid);
 		winwidget_render_image(winwid, 0, 0);
 	}
diff --git a/src/options.c b/src/options.c
index 8fbdbfb2..e1aa4910 100644
--- a/src/options.c
+++ b/src/options.c
@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ void init_parse_options(int argc, char **argv)
 	opt.thumb_w = 60;
 	opt.thumb_h = 60;
 	opt.thumb_redraw = 10;
-	opt.scroll_step = 20;
+	opt.scroll_step = 5;
+	opt.scroll_page_step = 90;
 	opt.menu_font = estrdup(DEFAULT_MENU_FONT);
 	opt.font = NULL;
 	opt.menu_bg = estrdup(PREFIX "/share/feh/images/menubg_default.png");
@@ -401,6 +402,7 @@ static void feh_parse_option_array(int argc, char **argv, int finalrun)
 		{"no-fehbg"      , 0, 0, 236},
 		{"keep-zoom-vp"  , 0, 0, 237},
 		{"scroll-step"   , 1, 0, 238},
+		{"scroll-page-step"   , 1, 0, 239},
 
 		{0, 0, 0, 0}
 	};
@@ -735,7 +737,14 @@ static void feh_parse_option_array(int argc, char **argv, int finalrun)
 			opt.keep_zoom_vp = 1;
 			break;
 		case 238:
-			opt.scroll_step = atoi(optarg);
+			opt.scroll_step = atof(optarg);
+			if (opt.scroll_step > 1)
+				opt.scroll_step /= 100;
+			break;
+		case 239:
+			opt.scroll_page_step = atof(optarg);
+			if (opt.scroll_page_step > 1)
+				opt.scroll_page_step /= 100;
 			break;
 		default:
 			break;
diff --git a/src/options.h b/src/options.h
index a22cc059..5fd6b077 100644
--- a/src/options.h
+++ b/src/options.h
@@ -110,8 +110,9 @@ struct __fehoptions {
 	int zoom_mode;
 	unsigned char adjust_reload;
 
-	/* signed in case someone wants to invert scrolling real quick */
-	int scroll_step;
+	/* possible to invert scrolling */
+	float scroll_step;
+	float scroll_page_step;
 
 	unsigned int min_width, min_height, max_width, max_height;