High Resolution Scrolling On Linux Progressing, Apple Magic Mouse Support In Linux 5.15

[perpetually high]

Is it actually free? All donations and working hours paid by the big companies are included in the prices of their respective products.

Free for me. And you. And every other person in the world should they choose so.

[Shtirlic]

tildearrow

It may be true but it doesn't add anything to the discussion so I decide to troll back. You could say his sarcastic comment to so many things on Linux.

I just don't tolerate anyone not appreciating a free and amazing OS like GNU/Linux. That's all. Not trying to troll.

Is it actually free? All donations and working hours paid by the big companies are included in the prices of their respective products.

[Chugworth]

What exactly is wrong in your opinion? I use the touchpad scroll in a Thinkpad and I didn't see any inconvenience both in FIrefox and Chrome.

By default you do not get true smooth scrolling on touchpads like you would find on Windows or Mac. Or even Chromium on Linux. It can be enabled by putting "export MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1" in your ".bash_profile" and then turning off the false "smooth scrolling" option, but that is not exactly a user-friendly way of correcting the problem.

[M@GOid]

Now I wonder how long it's going to take apps to add support for this. To this day, FireFox on Linux still doesn't properly handle touchpad scrolling unless you set "MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1" and disable the simulated "smooth scrolling" in its settings.

What exactly is wrong in your opinion? I use the touchpad scroll in a Thinkpad and I didn't see any inconvenience both in FIrefox and Chrome.

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tildearrow

It may be true but it doesn't add anything to the discussion so I decide to troll back. You could say his sarcastic comment to so many things on Linux.

I just don't tolerate anyone not appreciating a free and amazing OS like GNU/Linux. That's all. Not trying to troll.

[tildearrow]

Cry more

Well it's true
Partial support existed in 2017-2019. Dolphin supported it, but the browser didn't
GTK also partially supported it

On Windows the support is not perfect either though. I had to bypass the Boot Camp driver to get smooth scrolling with the touchpad.

[discordian]

I had to upgrade to kernel 5.13 as some 5.10 revision completely broke the mousewheel for my Logitech mouse. I can't fathom why this is a constant source of problems in literally every component involved

[perpetually high]

Whoop de doo, Linux might finally get system-wide smooth scrolling in 5.15 while macOS had it since 10.6 and Windows since Windows 8.

Cry more

[lamka02sk]

They need to allow you to adjust scrolling sensitivity. I cannot use desktop Linux because my expensive mouse's scrollwheel requires an insane amount of scroll to move down the page.

...in Chromium browsers. I hate it too. Luckily, Firefox scrolls just fine.

[EvilHowl]

I love those quality-of-life improvements. They really make a difference.