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Lack of natural scrolling for mice #268

Open mgriego opened 5 months ago

mgriego commented 5 months ago

One of the more annoying aspects of the new Wayland-compositor-based desktop UI in Raspberry Pi OS is the lack of natural scrolling for mice. I personally use natural scrolling on every desktop, so not having it on the Pi is jarring. I submitted an upstream patch to add natural scrolling support for mice to the wayfire compositor: https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire/pull/2370. Since wayfire for Raspberry Pi OS is not on the current version, can we backport this into the Raspberry Pi OS wayfire release? At the moment, I'm using a locally-patched Debian package I've created. The patch pretty much directly applies to the older wayfire version. I would have submitted a patch, but none of the branches on the https://github.com/raspberrypi-ui/wayfire repository look like they directly correspond to the source package for wayfire on Raspberry Pi OS...

lurch commented 5 months ago

I asked a colleague about this, and they said that although we don't yet have this in our version of Wayfire, it is available in the beta Labwc compositor (see https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=370005 ) via the <libinput><device><naturalScroll> [yes|no] config option, if you'd like to give that a test?

popcornmix commented 5 months ago

I think that forum thread may be visible only to beta testers. There are similar instructions here: https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?p=2219975#p2219975

mgriego commented 4 months ago

So the expectation is that Raspberry Pi OS is going to switch to the labwc compositor as the default going forward?

ghollingworth commented 4 months ago

Yes