Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by artursapek on Friday March 31, 2017 @10:19AM (#14004016)

I switched from a Macbook air to Ubuntu on a Thinkpad this fall, and mouse/scroll settings were by far the most frustrating part of the transition. I ended up with a script I run every time I boot up my machine:

https://github.com/artursapek/dotfiles/blob/master/prefs.sh

It's nice that xinput exists for low-level tweaks, but it seemed necessary because the GUI is so lacking. I still don't think I completely understand what settings I'm changing, but everything feels normal now.

The trackpad scrolling still doesn't feel nearly as good as on a mac, but I've gotten used to it.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by xymostech on Friday March 31, 2017 @12:23PM (#14005343)

I think you should be able to put those settings into your X11 configuration so you don't have to re-configure every time you boot, unless xinput on Ubuntu is different from Arch: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Libinput#Common_options (Although debugging xorg config files is not a terribly fun exercise :/)

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