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I recently tried switching to Linux with a few different distro's (Ubuntu, Elementary OS, etc.) and use Wayland.

The thing that sticks out like a sore thumb to me, and which I've been unable to solve, is that apparently it's not possible to configure trackpad scroll speed. At all.

From what I was able to gather, Wayland/libinput say they shouldn't be responsible for handling it and instead window managers should[0][1], meanwhile gnome says wayland/libinput should handle it[2] and ultimately - several years later - it's still not possible to in pretty much any Linux distro that uses Wayland(?)

When I switch to my Linux laptop to test things, my trackpad is bonkers and I have to move my finger in like 1mm increments because otherwise I'd scroll like 10 pages in Firefox. It's infuriatingly frustrating.

[0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/18...

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/issues/87

[2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues...

parent emidoots 4 years ago

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