Fedora 43/GNOME Wayland] Extremely Slow Scroll Wheel Sensitivity (Logitech G903 Hyperfast)

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Hello everyone,

I’ve been experiencing an issue with scroll wheel sensitivity on my Logitech G903 mouse ever since I updated to (or around the time of) Fedora 43.

The problem is specifically with the Hyperfast/Freewheel mode (the loose scroll wheel). When in this mode, the wheel spins quickly and freely, but the screen only scrolls a few lines, making navigation incredibly slow. This behavior is consistent across all applications (Firefox, Brave, Nautilus, and GNOME system settings). It is a low sensitivity issue, not system lag or freezing.

My System Configuration:

  • OS: Fedora 43]
  • Desktop Environment: GNOME (Default)
  • Session Type: Wayland
  • Mouse: Logitech G903 Lightspeed (Using the physical button to switch to Freewheel mode)

Steps I have already taken (and results):

  1. Kernel Rollback: I reverted to an older kernel version, but the slow scrolling persisted, indicating the issue is likely a recent package update (libinput, gnome-shell, etc.).

  2. Solaar Configuration: I ensured that “Scroll Wheel Resolution” is enabled in the Solaar application. This slightly improved the scrolling speed but did not resolve the core problem.

  3. imwheel: I tried using imwheel to apply a multiplier, but as I am running a Wayland session, this utility is ineffective.

This happened after yesterday, the last system update. Today i got some other minor updates but did not solve.

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I’ve also observed a notable reduction in scroll speed in the last couple of days since running an update. I’m using a Razer DeathAdder V2 with a standard scroll wheel.

This seems to suggest it’s a regression in libinput 1.29.901, downgrading to 1.29.2 should resolve this for now.

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That’s odd I hat quite the oposite. Moving three pages with a simple one nodge scroll on a LT Anywhere MX+. For me a quick work around was switch off and on the mouse (no kidding). I feel that returning from sleep somehow confuses F43/Mutter/X11 on a dual screen setup with different resolutions confuses the system enough that the mouse scrolling is off.

Or it might’ve been installing imwheel while still finding out what it can do.

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I just did a downgrade to previous libinput like our friend Ben Short said in this post

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Happens for me too with some basic Dell mouse.

Downgrading libinput to the second newest version fixed it on Fedora Silverblue 43:
rpm-ostree override replace https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/libinput/1.29.2/1.fc43/x86_64/libinput-1.29.2-1.fc43.x86_64.rpm

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This has now been patched in libinput-1.29.902-1