I am using the operating system stated in the title on my laptop. Using the Brave Browser there is the problem that my scrolling speed is way off with the rest of my device. It is way to high. I tried using Chrome and Firefox: Chrome has the same problem, Firefox doesn’t. This has to be a bug with Chromium based browsers. There is no way to change the touchpad scroll speed in Gnome nor per-application. If anyone knows what could trigger this problem please let me know. Research did not help - most posts talk about Wayland problems. I don’t know what to do.
Give this a try:
Apparently the Gnome developers don’t think this is a problem… many people find it to be a problem. I wonder who’s correct.
While it does not relate directly to the software issue, I use a Logitech MX Ergo trackball and it has a button that slows down the scrolling rate dramatically when I want precision location for the mouse pointer. It could provide a solution for this type of issue. I suspect there are other mice/trackballs with similar features to assist as well.
I have never seen the issue you report on Chrome which is my preferred browser.
Thank you for your reply! I tried to install the tool but it errors for me. I’ll maybe try again tomorrow. It seems like this is a well-known issue for many other people but the GNOME team does not tackle it.
As I said, the problem occurs using the touchpad of a laptop and not an external mouse.
Post the error.
All the script actually does behind the scenes is
dnf install -y meson ninja-build libinput-devel git
git clone https://github.com/lz42/libinput-config.git
cd libinput-config
meson setup build
ninja -C build
ninja -C build install
cat <<EOF > /etc/libinput.conf
# libinput-config configuration
override-compositor=enabled
# Fixed scroll speed (0.3 is your preferred slower speed)
scroll-factor=0.3
tap=enabled
natural-scroll=enabled
EOF
You could also apply this which people claim helps, but obviously only in chrome:
chrome://flags
Change Smooth Scrolling & Windows Scrolling Personality to “enabled”
Could always vote with your feet and use a different desktop environment - plenty of choice… some of them even let you configure your stuff the way you want it.
Doesn’t that just create a new problem? If only Chromium browsers have this problem, decreasing the overall sensitivity enough will drastically decrease the currently very acceptable scroll speed of every other application and the OS. Or is it settable per-application?
Brave also has these experimental flags. I already tried to set these but it did not change anything unfortunately.
I’ve no idea - I don’t use Chrome, a trackpad or Gnome, so I can’t say what the overall impact will be - no way to try it without spinning up a VM… and even then I’m not really sure why ALL Gnome users who use trackpads don’t have the same overly sensitive response to scrolling.
There are some complaints, but a handful versus the tens of thousands of installations.
I’m also not really sure why Gnome won’t just let you change the sensitivity of trackpad scrolling. Presumably there’s a good reason and it’s more than “we don’t believe users want to change it”.