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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Alexander Huntley <huntley.alexander@gmail.com>
Cc: 50269@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50269: 27.2; Request: use GTK continuous scroll events for smooth touchpad scrolling
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 18:03:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bksc2rlm.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c941a5a7-59d8-ad89-d9ae-aec42e331416@gmail.com> (Alexander Huntley's message of "Mon, 30 Aug 2021 14:35:19 +0100")

Alexander Huntley <huntley.alexander@gmail.com> writes:

> When using a laptop touchpad, native GTK applications use continuous
> scroll events to give much smoother scrolling, whereas Emacs simply
> emulates the discrete scrolling events of a mouse scroll wheel. This
> makes touchpad scrolling under Emacs feel much less natural than many
> other Linux applications.
>
> Would it be possible to expose these events to elisp and hence get nice
> pixel-perfect scrolling in Emacs?

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

There's been a great deal of work done in this area over the last few
months -- perhaps you could try the current "master" branch of Emacs and
see whether things work well for you there?





  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-08-22 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-30 13:35 bug#50269: 27.2; Request: use GTK continuous scroll events for smooth touchpad scrolling Alexander Huntley
2021-08-30 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-30 18:37   ` Alexander Huntley
2021-08-30 18:40     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-30 19:02       ` Alexander Huntley
2021-08-30 19:14         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-30 21:26           ` Alexander Huntley
2021-08-31 12:17             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-31 16:33               ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2021-08-31 16:39                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-01 12:57                   ` Alexander Huntley
2021-09-01 13:49                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-30 19:28 ` Alan Third
2021-08-30 21:36   ` Alexander Huntley
2021-08-30 22:22     ` Alan Third
2022-08-22 16:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-09-19 19:21   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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