GNU bug report logs - #29737
27.0.50; pixel-scroll-mode is laggy

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From: Valentin Ignatyev <valentjedi <at> gmail.com>
To: Tak Kunihiro <tkk <at> misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 29737 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29737: 27.0.50; pixel-scroll-mode is laggy
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 15:18:35 +1000

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I've tried these both at the same time already. As I've said - scrolling
down is a bit laggy (and it eats the CPU and turns on my fans up high). And
scroll up is much laggier. It's when I scroll slowly. If I do quick swipe -
emacs hangs and then jumps to the line when scrolling must end.

On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Tak Kunihiro <tkk <at> misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp>
wrote:

> > When I slowly start scrolling, it scrolls for a while and then jumps
> > about 10 rows at the time, then scrolls a bit more and jumps again
> > If I swipe my trackpad too fast, emacs instantly eats 100% CPU and
> > hangs infinitely (it hangs not every time, but rather once in a
> > while.  It can just go to the end of the file).
> >
> > If I scroll with Ctrl-key as Eli suggested in the first thread mail,
> > it scrolls better than before the fix, but I still see this lag
> > pattern (scroll a bit and then jump), but in the smaller scale and
> > it doesn't kill emacs.  Setting mouse-wheel-progressive-speed to nil
> > seem to make no difference.
> >
> > Btw, while I do use macbook, my OS is Arch Linux here.  Just tried
> > it on mac os. pixel-scroll-mode works much better here though there
> > is still small noticeable lag. And also I can see that scroll up
> > lagging more than scroll down.
>
> Can you try scrolling with following configuration?
>
>   (setq mouse-wheel-scroll-amount '(1 ((shift) . 5) ((control))))
>   (setq mouse-wheel-progressive-speed nil)
>
> Those are two that are already suggested by Eli.  Please try both at
> the same time.
>

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