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musayasin

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Registered: 2021-10-03

Posts: 3

scroll is jittery not laggy but you can say its really sticky

I expected the scrolling to be like that on windows or mac... when you browse and scroll anywhere you can feel that the scrollbar jumps to points i dont know why how can i fix this i need because I'm a web developer and I design webpages with scrolling animations... Please help libinput doesnt have a fix for the jumpy scrolling..

Last edited by musayasin (2021-10-03 11:13:19)

Ammako

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Registered: 2021-07-16

Posts: 267

Re: scroll is jittery not laggy but you can say its really sticky

Can you elaborate? Are you able to provide some kind of video or animation showing what it looks like, versus what you're expecting it to be like?

dogknowsnx

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Re: scroll is jittery not laggy but you can say its really sticky

Sounds a bit like this. Downgrading libinput to 1.18.1 seemed to mitigate the issue (temporary 'fix')...

musayasin

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Registered: 2021-10-03

Posts: 3

Re: scroll is jittery not laggy but you can say its really sticky

Sounds a bit like this. Downgrading libinput to 1.18.1 seemed to mitigate the issue (temporary 'fix')...

exactly this is also my issue so now I'll try to downgrade libinput btw im new to this do you know a pacman command than can instant install libinput 1.18.1?

musayasin

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Registered: 2021-10-03

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Re: scroll is jittery not laggy but you can say its really sticky

Can you elaborate? Are you able to provide some kind of video or animation showing what it looks like, versus what you're expecting it to be like?

im not able to elaborate rn but it's like if you try to scroll down or up the scrollbar jumps to next position instead of scrolling smoothly to it.
in simple terms its like a scrollbar designed for very slow laptops to mimic the functionality of a smooth one

dogknowsnx

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Re: scroll is jittery not laggy but you can say its really sticky

do you know a pacman command than can instant install libinput 1.18.1?

Check '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/' if the package version is cached and install it by preceding it with 'sudo pacman -U'.
EDIT: Otherwise grab it from here:
https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/l/libinput/

Last edited by dogknowsnx (2021-10-03 12:48:52)

TimeTrap00

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Registered: 2022-10-20

Posts: 9

Re: scroll is jittery not laggy but you can say its really sticky

do you know a pacman command than can instant install libinput 1.18.1?

Check '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/' if the package version is cached and install it by preceding it with 'sudo pacman -U'.
EDIT: Otherwise grab it from here:
https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/l/libinput/

I tried this and after logging out my keyboard, trackpad and mouse no longer worked.  Do I need to downgrade all packages for this to work?
Or did I miss a step?

By the way, I fixed the keyboard/trackpad/mouse issue by doing the following:
1. restarted laptop by pressing power button for 2-3 seconds
2. when getting to linux boot screens, pressed 'e'
3. this will present boot parameters
4. added this parameter to the end of the parameters (this puts you into terminal-only mode):

        systemd.unit=multi-user.target
       
5. from here you can update libinput back to the latest using the following command:
   
    sudo pacman -S libinput # update a single package

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

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Re: scroll is jittery not laggy but you can say its really sticky

The OP has not been back since 2021. Please do not necrobump.

Instead, if you need help with an issue, please start a new topic and refer back to this one if you think it still applies.

Closing.