Auto-scroll stops working when window loses focus.

[tajonny07]

As the titles says, my window isn't auto-scrolling correctly. As soon as my window loses focus, it stops scrolling as people continue to talk. Then every time I click back, I have to either scroll down a bunch of hold page down.

I've consulted with multiple people and this issue is happening for everyone I've talked to.

[sander85]

AFAIK it's not a bug, it's a feature. What's the point to auto-scroll? So you would have to scroll back up to read what you were missing when the window was inactive?

[tajonny07]

I see where you're coming from, and with just 1-on-1 chats that would make sense, but I'm in a group chat with 20+ people and when I come back to my PC there may be 200-300+ new messages, so in this case I'd rather not read through them all but just have it auto-scroll.

Is it possible for it to be enabled/disabled? If not, would you consider adding this feature? I know a bunch of people who would use it. :)

[ghost]

This is really annoying. And this seems to be completely random (I have not figuret it out yet). Sometimes it scrolls and sometime it doesn't.

[ghost]

Received images seems to have something to do with this issues when window is not in focus.

[JustERR]

Also on Windows if I scroll public chat's text using mouse wheel while Telegram window is out of focus then unread count wouldn't be changed and the next received message will make the text "jump" to the last "read" position.

[husolant]

I have TG on a second screen and if there are new messages it just displays "x unread messages" at the bottom of the chat. I can´t read what´s been written until ich click (focus) the window and manually scroll down which I think is unfortunate. I would expect it to autoscroll at least until the chat is full with new messages so I can keep up with the conversation while doing something else on the main screen. If it is considered a feature for single screen users, a optional setting would be an alternative.

[ComodoHacker]

Please add an option to autoscroll regardless of focus. There are scenarios where last messages are much more important than unread history:

• game chats
• chats coordinating ongoing events
• chats with text games
• data feeds

Such option could really help with multitasking and productivity.

[ilyag-x]

Scenario: You have dual monitors -- one has whatever it is you're actively engaged in (examples: a web browser, a game, a work-related project), and the other has Telegram. This scenario makes Telegram unusable, as you are unable to keep up with the latest posts in a conversation just by looking over at the second screen -- you instead have to actively click into it, even though it's right there in front of you already.

You don't even need two monitors -- ever heard of tiling windows? Snapping a window to the side of the screen? This is how normal people multitask.

It's really baffling that the developers are so closed-minded as to not even comprehend that there are so many perfectly valid use-cases for a chat program where you DO want it to auto-scroll as the new messages arrive. Any other chat platform that has ever existed worked exactly like this. And now to hear from developers, "Why would you want that?" What rubbish.

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[husolant]

Issue was opened in 2015 and multiple people have stated why this is an important feature. Should still be considered

[disantimaxi]

Issue was opened in 2015 and multiple people have stated why this is an important feature. If people still needing this after 5 years, FIVE YEARS people!, it should still be considered and fixed adding an option to check or uncheck this feature as needed. I'm not a programmer and I'm not able to help on the development of it but I need this as much as all other guys are talking about around this since 2015.

[weblabio]

+1 I really miss this option in order to follow the conversation without switching to the window

[timangus]

This is super annoying behaviour for large groups where you don't necessarily want to read every message. It should definitely be an option to disable it.

[ghost]

Another use case is playing a game that doesn't support borderless by having to click out whenever the messages stack

[Corosauce]

How is this not a feature yet, do telegram devs hate people with multiple monitors?

Are there alternative chat integration solutions that I can wire telegram protocal into to get around this? This not being a feature is just silly.

[flolege]

Please introduce this feature asap. the current behavior is really annoying!

[Corosauce]

Ive found a way to make it auto scroll.

1. Install windows in a vm
2. Install the telegram app
3. Install autohotkey
4. Download and execute this script that spams page down every 2 seconds when you toggle with F9 key https://gist.github.com/Corosauce/710f05057dfd438cfa6b4023a0a84a0e
5. Enjoy those sweet sweet up to date conversations, just dont forget to press F9 again if you want to do anything with the VM

(Yeah I couldn't find an alternative telegram app ok, and I already run a windows VM in linux)

[DDR0]

This is my no.1 least favourite thing about Telegram. I've got a window open keeping an eye on the group chat, and it just... stops scrolling unless I give it some attention. It's a needy little thing, so I usually just end up ignoring chats on it. I just want to keep an eye on how things are (d)evolving, I don't want to see every darn message those idiots send.

Especially because stickers are large, making the problem worse as I sometimes have to poke the window every few seconds to get it to keep up.

This works fine in IRC. Works fine in Discord. Works fine in Signal. Please remove the forced scroll pausing malfeature.

[nuclight]

Hey huys, you've broke work for many people including me who expect to not readed messages to stay such! Now we open #16188

[john-preston]

Ok, I'll revert for now. Maybe an option can be added later.

[LuisCRSousa]

This is the worst "feature" about telegram...

[erraineon]

i wrote a utility a while back to enable this behavior when needed https://github.com/erraineon/telegram-scroll

enjoy

[LuisCRSousa]

i wrote a utility a while back to enable this behavior when needed https://github.com/erraineon/telegram-scroll

enjoy

You’re a genius! Thanks a lot

[DDR0]

That looks great! I'll have to get it working on Linux here. ☺

On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 1:58 PM LuisCRSousa @.***> wrote:

i wrote a utility a while back to enable this behavior when needed https://github.com/erraineon/telegram-scroll

enjoy

You’re a genius! Thanks a lot

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[kamild1996]

i wrote a utility a while back to enable this behavior when needed https://github.com/erraineon/telegram-scroll

enjoy

A version without Thanos's rocket and with support for 64-bit Telegram would be great though ;)

And as for the issue - man, 6 years and counting... This single "feature" is the reason I'm avoiding the official client and sticking to third party ones instead, like Unigram, which does not have this issue.

[RememberTheAir]

Don't know it it has already been mentioned but kotatogram (a fork of this app) has an option to keep scrolling when the window loses focus

[cvpfus]

Don't know it it has already been mentioned but kotatogram (a fork of this app) has an option to keep scrolling when the window loses focus

how to enable this setting? can't find it

[kamild1996]

how to enable this setting? can't find it

Settings > Kotatogram Settings > Unfocused auto-scroll

[DDR0]

Oh, thank you. This is perfect!

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how to enable this setting? can't find it

Settings > Kotatogram Settings > Unfocused auto-scroll

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[ghost]

7 years and we still have to keep scrolling by hand all the time

[kamild1996]

7 years and we still have to keep scrolling by hand all the time

You can wait another 7 years, or just use alt clients like kotatogram or unigram 😊

[KodyWiremane]

Would appreciate optional unconditional autoscrolling so I could watch my friends chatting on the second monitor while I'm working on the main one^^

[23rd]

A new related experimental option was presented in 3.7.6 version.