From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.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, 30 Aug 2021 20:28:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YS0xX3MH0xUD0O/o@idiocy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c941a5a7-59d8-ad89-d9ae-aec42e331416@gmail.com>
On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 02:35:19PM +0100, Alexander Huntley wrote:
> 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?
It's not practical to do in the current X/GTK terminal code. Emacs
doesn't actually use the GTK event system, so it would have to be
added from scratch.
Once PGTK is merged it should be able to provide this sort of thing
much more easily.
--
Alan Third
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-30 19:28 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 [this message]
2021-08-30 21:36 ` Alexander Huntley
2021-08-30 22:22 ` Alan Third
2022-08-22 16:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-19 19:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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