GNU bug report logs - #50269
27.2; Request: use GTK continuous scroll events for smooth touchpad scrolling

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alexander Huntley <huntley.alexander <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 14:57:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 27.2

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alexander Huntley <huntley.alexander <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 50269 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50269: 27.2; Request: use GTK continuous scroll events for smooth touchpad scrolling
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 18:57:16 +0300

> From: Alexander Huntley <huntley.alexander <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 14:35:19 +0100
> 
> When using a laptop touchpad, native GTK applications use continuous
> scroll events to give much smoother scrolling, whereas Emacs simply
> emulates the discrete scrolling events of a mouse scroll wheel. This
> makes touchpad scrolling under Emacs feel much less natural than many
> other Linux applications.
> 
> Would it be possible to expose these events to elisp and hence get nice
> pixel-perfect scrolling in Emacs?

Did you try "M-x pixel-scroll-mode RET"?  It isn't perfect, but maybe
it's "good enough" for your needs?
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