Hi there,
I am scavenging the whole internet for a way to scale down the scroll speed for a laptop touchpad. It seems like nobody really knows a solution for that problem. There are some tweaks such as with imwheel, libinput or xinput, but none of these work for me. My Windowing System is Weyland, and I cannot find any solution compatible with it.
Does everyone really just stick with the way too high scroll sensitivity using ZorinOS on laptops? Is there any solution coming in the future or available right now? I am coming from Windows so a setting to tweak the scroll speed is a must-have in my mind!
This is a good question.
For those that experience this; it is exceptionally frustrating. Like having a tiny thorn in your sock.
Every step gets on your nerves.
Most people do not experience this, however. This is a Hadware to OS communication issue. Since it is not very common, you are unfortunate and most people are still understandably intolerant.
Yes, Wayland is not compatible with these types of fixes with a philosophy of "set defaults, minimal customization". The pointer scaling that was part of input stack was never really moved over to Wayland. And while many user level compositors like XFWM4, Kwin and even Mutter can have their own scaling multipliers - Gnome doesn't.
As long as you are using Wayland and Gnome - you are painted into a corner.
Obviously, I do not often turn right to suggesting using differently on the Zorin Forum... But in your case, with your options limited to input tweaks like IMWheel (or maybe even LibInput), You may need to consider them.
Did you try to switch to XOrg? Logout and at login click on your username, then a cog wheal appears at the bottom right. There select "Zorin Desktop on XOrg". Many of the tools only work well with XOrg and XOrg makes less problems on Zorin 17. This setting will be kept until you change it.
Thank you for your answers. This is really frustrating yes. I managed to change my Window Manager to XOrg and was able to tweak the scrolling speed with xinput. However, there is no Scroll Velocity option anymore so scrolling instantly stops.
Thank you, Dominic, for that question and discussion.
I just (re)started my Linux journey with Zorin 18 after 8 years ago I tried Linux Mint and others...
I so much love the idea and don't understand that we actually are not able to adjust a touch device, independet of the manufacturer.
And again: Linux is not ready for the normal user - unless he's incredibly lucky to have the right hardware? That does make the whole promise of Zorin instead of Windows totally useless, when it's more of a lottery.
