Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

Re:Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000 by llimllib on Monday October 14, 2019 @11:00AM (#21248967)

The thread of responses from the Wayland issue tracker about why "allowing the user to change the scroll speed" is an impossible problem to solve is truly depressing: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/issues/87

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Re:Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000 by jandrese on Monday October 14, 2019 @02:27PM (#21251258)

I don't know why it would be a Weyland or X issue. Scroll speed should be controlled by the widgets, GTK in the case of GNOME. Trying to set it at the compositor level seems misguided.

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Re:Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000 by paulddraper on Monday October 14, 2019 @07:47PM (#21254114)

Haven't used Weyland, but X is far more than "a compositor."

Keyboard, mouse, touchscreen, etc.

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Re:Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000 by jandrese on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @10:52AM (#21259047)

X stops at a very low level. Scroll Wheel events in X are treated as button presses. There's no X API call to get a "scroll by this much" per Button4 or Button5 events. It wouldn't even make sense in the context. All of that is handled by libraries above the X level.

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