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Fedora 17 releasedFedora 17 releasedPosted May 31, 2012 11:46 UTC (Thu) by cmm (guest, #81305)In reply to: Fedora 17 released by daniels Parent article: Fedora 17 released
Leaving an option to turn off "smooth scrolling" (which is, I gather, a critical feature, even though I don't need it) was, obviously, out of the question. As is typical for the Gnome crowd.
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Fedora 17 released Posted May 31, 2012 11:51 UTC (Thu) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link]
You could always just not upgrade. Or contribute a patch to make it optional since, y'know, no-one else has ever mentioned that they'd like to turn it off in the entire 18 months between the first patches for this feature hitting xorg-devel and now.
Fedora 17 released Posted May 31, 2012 12:20 UTC (Thu) by cmm (guest, #81305) [Link]
I don't feel strongly about smooth scrolling one way or the other, actually, I just hate that it broke that xmodmap hack I've been happily using.
Anyway, let me break the pattern of just complaining. It is possible to have natural scrolling even with GTK+ 3.4, and not just for Synaptics touchpads. Like this:
1. Disable the button remapping hack (comment it out in your .Xmodmap or whatever) -- leaving it there would mean continued confusion.
2. Now, your pointing devices have to support the 'Evdev Wheel Emulation Axes' XInput property. For those that do (I don't have any mice around to check, but my Logitech trackball does, and so do TrackPoints):
xinput "${dev}" 'Evdev Wheel Emulation Axes' 7 6 5 4
Fedora 17 released Posted May 31, 2012 12:29 UTC (Thu) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link]
Ideally though, there'd be a single, global, non-driver-dependent property, so you could just say 'xinput "$dev" "Scroll Direction" -1'.
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