For the love of god, we need a trackpad scroll speed adjustment in the GUI! Come on!
As @Forpli has explained, this is down to Gnome and their Devs thinking they know better than other Devs and Users.
"There is no direct graphical setting in GNOME 43 to adjust touchpad scroll speed, as this functionality is not exposed through the standard settings interface, particularly when using the Wayland session. However, scroll speed can be modified using configuration files or command-line tools.
For systems using the Xorg session, the scroll speed can be adjusted by modifying the ScrollPixelDistance option in the /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf file. This involves adding or editing the Option "ScrollPixelDistance" "value" line within the InputClass section for touchpads, where a higher value reduces sensitivity. After making changes, a reboot is required for the settings to take effect.
For systems using Wayland, which is the default in GNOME 43, the method is more complex. One effective approach involves using libinput to adjust the touchpad's coordinate range. This requires measuring the touchpad dimensions using sudo libinput measure touchpad-size , then using the output to create a custom hardware database entry in /etc/udev/hwdb.d/61-evdev-local.hwdb . After saving the file, the hardware database must be updated with sudo systemd-hwdb update and udev rules reloaded with sudo udevadm trigger /dev/input/event* , followed by a reboot. This method effectively scales the scroll speed, though it may also affect pointer speed, which can be adjusted separately in the GNOME Settings under "Mouse & Touchpad".
Alternatively, a third-party tool called libinput-config can be used to configure scroll speed via a text file, which is considered a more straightforward solution for Wayland sessions. This tool allows setting a scroll-factor value less than 1 (e.g., 0.5) to reduce scroll speed.
In summary, while GNOME 43 does not provide a built-in slider for touchpad scroll speed, it can be adjusted through system-level configuration files or tools like libinput and libinput-config , especially when using Wayland.
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I don't have access to a notebook, but because Gnome continues to go from bad to worse I don't use Zorin as my daily driver. On the plus side of 18 you can install KDE Plasma 5.27. My preferred alternatives are PCLOS Debuan Plasma and Q4OS Plasma a rolling release (with LMDE 7 Cinnamon in third place).