Re:Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?
by mschuster91 on Sunday April 12, 2020 @05:13AM
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To make stuff worse, Elantech/Synaptics feature-gate their drivers... I have had laptops where I put a trackpad driver from some totally different laptop and suddenly I'd have a lot more gestures.
But no matter what, two finger scrolling and zooming won't ever be as smooth and "step free" under Windows/Linux... once experienced, cannot be missed.
Re:Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?
by idle_zealot on Sunday April 12, 2020 @05:53AM
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>But no matter what, two finger scrolling and zooming won't ever be as smooth and "step free" under Windows/Linux
That's not true. I'm not sure exactly what's changed but when running Firefox with the Wayland backend I've found that scrolling is continuous.
Re:Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?
by auscompgeek on Sunday April 12, 2020 @08:09AM
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I'm still using Firefox on XWayland (because of the subtle bugs in the Wayland backend), but you can also get continuous scrolling on X using XInput2 as well (set the environment variable MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1).
Re:Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?
by jtvjan on Sunday April 12, 2020 @12:54PM
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Smooth scrolling isn't impossible, but it does need to be specially implemented. Firefox does so if you set the environment variable MOZ_USE_XINPUT2 to 1. Of course, on Mac OS X, it's built-in to the UI toolkit, so every application has it.
Apple with tighter integration delivers the actual touchpad movement data and not a faked mouse event.
Windows 10 has had work done in this area too but not sure the details.