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Horizontal scrolling sensitivity differs from vertical
Status:
RESOLVED: MOVED
Product:
Xfce4-settings
Component:
Mouse Settings

Comments

Description ben_c_james 2015-01-13 21:35:43 CET
Summary:

When horizontal scrolling is enabled (xfce4-mouse-settings: Menu | Settings | Mouse and Touchpad) it does not honour the sensitivity/acceleration settings.

Related issues:

"Enable horizontal scrolling" doesn't work with "Reverse scroll direction" - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-settings/+bug/1409347

Aside:

In addition (and this may warrant a separate ticket), the options in the UI are somewhat confusing:

1) The "Sensitivity" option has a tooltip which reads as if the option should actually be named "Threshold" as it defines when the acceleration option comes into effect. To exacerbate the issue, lowering the slider (further left) decreases the threshold and actually increases the "sensitivity".

2) There is no actual sensitivity option - i.e. there is no way to change the underlying mapping between distance moved on the touchpad and distance moved on the screen; this makes it very awkward to use a laptop with a small touchpad without having an "edgy" feel to the mouse (i.e. relying on acceleration to when sensitivity isn't appropriate).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: xfce4-settings 4.11.3-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-29.39-generic 3.16.7-ckt2
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sun Jan 11 16:09:29 2015
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/xfce4-mouse-settings
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-01-10 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1)
SourcePackage: xfce4-settings
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

See downstream bug here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-settings/+bug/1409478
Comment 1 Git Bot editbugs 2020-05-28 23:01:19 CEST
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Bug #11457

Reported by:
ben_c_james
Reported on: 2015-01-13
Last modified on: 2020-05-28

People

Assignee:
Nick Schermer
CC List:
3 users

Version

Version:
4.11.0

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