Some way to speed up scrolling on touchpad (inertia scrolling?) #1855

bbaovanc commented 2024年10月12日 00:24:43 +02:00

Describe your feature request

The default scroll multiplier is perfect for a mouse with a scroll wheel, but on a trackpad it's unusably slow. I'm not sure if this has to do with there not being smooth scrolling, or if maybe there needs to be a separate multiplier for touchpad. I can't just increase the scroll multiplier because it becomes too fast on mouse wheel.

I also think supporting inertia scroll, where it keeps scrolling for a bit if you abruptly let go of the touchpad while scrolling quickly, would help remedy this. There's also #300, although it shouldn't really be necessary to solve this; somehow iTerm2 on macOS is able to make scrolling feel the right speed even with it being jagged.

Let me know if you need some recordings, I could try and capture what iTerm2's speed is like compared to foot.

### Describe your feature request The default scroll multiplier is perfect for a mouse with a scroll wheel, but on a trackpad it's unusably slow. I'm not sure if this has to do with there not being smooth scrolling, or if maybe there needs to be a separate multiplier for touchpad. I can't just increase the scroll multiplier because it becomes too fast on mouse wheel. I also think supporting inertia scroll, where it keeps scrolling for a bit if you abruptly let go of the touchpad while scrolling quickly, would help remedy this. There's also #300, although it shouldn't really be necessary to solve this; somehow iTerm2 on macOS is able to make scrolling feel the right speed even with it being jagged. Let me know if you need some recordings, I could try and capture what iTerm2's speed is like compared to foot.

ls-alh commented 2025年02月04日 20:14:40 +01:00

Android style progressive trackball momentum would be great! When you scroll on Android, it keeps scrolling like a trackball. But, when you flick again in the same direction, the view moves with the old speed + the new speed, - the speed it lost due to emulated friction.

Android style progressive trackball momentum would be great! When you scroll on Android, it keeps scrolling like a trackball. But, when you flick again in the same direction, the view moves with the old speed + the new speed, - the speed it lost due to emulated friction.

sturgeon-inc commented 2025年04月12日 02:14:08 +02:00

imo firefox-like kinetic scrolling (on wayland, at least) would be a killer feature

imo firefox-like kinetic scrolling (on wayland, at least) would be a killer feature

bbaovanc commented 2025年08月24日 04:14:49 +02:00

Just randomly found #1139 while searching for something else. It is also related.

Just randomly found #1139 while searching for something else. It is also related.