From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#50269: 27.2; Request: use GTK continuous scroll events for smooth touchpad scrolling Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 18:03:17 +0200 Message-ID: <87bksc2rlm.fsf@gnus.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15125"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 50269@debbugs.gnu.org To: Alexander Huntley Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 22 20:13:24 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oQBvP-0003hm-Sa for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2022 20:13:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37140 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oQBvN-0007K4-Uq for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2022 14:13:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38870) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oQ9uF-0004sE-1o for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2022 12:04:09 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:51816) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oQ9uE-000767-Ih for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2022 12:04:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oQ9uE-0000mK-C4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2022 12:04:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 16:04:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 50269 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 50269-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B50269.16611842092926 (code B ref 50269); Mon, 22 Aug 2022 16:04:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 50269) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Aug 2022 16:03:29 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41562 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oQ9th-0000l8-3q for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2022 12:03:29 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([95.216.78.240]:56246) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oQ9te-0000kj-9u for 50269@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2022 12:03:27 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnus.org; s=20200322; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:References: In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=4IN2Fquc+QMCmm6C6OT6aXASpan3d0l4MqBu5Kiasf8=; b=BotR9kcMhYC1AxUNKklPBO0DRy LTpf3IARZjn3nlKAkzxvw3aDOdEIlF+MCrA/KmeU5oNVvyWFuCOZQqNyD370tVPoDaso1ACkBhg2/ z9zsbm0iXNGkGxwjUS5uBIjtat7uN6+5+YtjdEbE0Ip/uIxBS/8iVxHWGpzriqCyDls8=; Original-Received: from [84.212.220.105] (helo=joga) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oQ9tW-00078c-4R; Mon, 22 Aug 2022 18:03:20 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Alexander Huntley's message of "Mon, 30 Aug 2021 14:35:19 +0100") X-Now-Playing: John Duncan's _Mort Aux Vaches: Seek_: "(untitled)" X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:240447 Archived-At: Alexander Huntley 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?