Trackpad is so useless.

haekele · 2026-08-17 12:14:40

I'm using Arch Linux with KDE Plasma and Wayland and my device is HP Spectre X360 16". My trackpad is so useless though. Like, I have to swipe across the entire trackpad just to get a gesture off. Scrolling is very laggy, like it registers half a second after I've swiped my finger on the trackpad. Also, on Google Chrome, the scrolling speed is way too fast. How do I resolve these trackpad-related issues?

aminepro · 2026-08-17 19:21:12

https://wiki.hypr.land/Configuring/Basi … /#touchpad

in hyprland.conf
under hl.config({input={ here}}) add touchpad = { scroll_factor = the factor number here }
and you're done that's how configuring hyprland in lua works.

You can add this too

hl.config({input={ touchpad = { scroll_factor = 1.5 } } } )

you can just keep adding

hl.config( [i]category[/i] = { [i] another category or variable/opiton [/i]})

haekele · 2026-08-18 02:10:39

aminepro wrote:

https://wiki.hypr.land/Configuring/Basi … /#touchpad
in hyprland.conf
under hl.config({input={ here}}) add touchpad = { scroll_factor = the factor number here }
and you're done that's how configuring hyprland in lua works.
You can add this too
hl.config({input={ touchpad = { scroll_factor = 1.5 } } } )
you can just keep adding
hl.config( [i]category[/i] = { [i] another category or variable/opiton [/i]}) 

I use KDE Plasma, I'm pretty sure this doesn't apply.

seth · 2026-08-18 06:16:35

https://man.archlinux.org/man/libinput- … -size.1.en ?

it registers half a second after I've swiped my finger on the trackpad

rather sounds like a general performance issue, though.
Assuming this is KDE on wayland, how does the touchpad behave in a weston session?

haekele · 2026-08-18 11:47:23

seth wrote:

https://man.archlinux.org/man/libinput- … -size.1.en ?
it registers half a second after I've swiped my finger on the trackpad
rather sounds like a general performance issue, though.
Assuming this is KDE on wayland, how does the touchpad behave in a weston session?

Hi, it's hard to tell on Weston, but honestly, scrolling works fine on KDE Plasma except on Chrome where it seems to have some sort of delay before scrolling. However, my point about gestures still holds where the gesture doesn't get registered as easily on Linux as in Windows, and I want it so that I don't have to so aggressively move my hand across the touchpad to register any gesture.

aminepro · 2026-08-18 12:03:17

haekele wrote:

aminepro wrote:
https://wiki.hypr.land/Configuring/Basi … /#touchpad
in hyprland.conf
under hl.config({input={ here}}) add touchpad = { scroll_factor = the factor number here }
and you're done that's how configuring hyprland in lua works.
You can add this too
hl.config({input={ touchpad = { scroll_factor = 1.5 } } } )
you can just keep adding
hl.config( [i]category[/i] = { [i] another category or variable/opiton [/i]}) 
I use KDE Plasma, I'm pretty sure this doesn't apply.

My bad I read wayland as hyprland and though you're using kde and hyprland so the problem exists in both, sorry

By the way can you try hyprland and do the above to check if this is kde's problem?

haekele · 2026-08-18 12:06:05

aminepro wrote:

haekele wrote:
aminepro wrote:
https://wiki.hypr.land/Configuring/Basi … /#touchpad
in hyprland.conf
under hl.config({input={ here}}) add touchpad = { scroll_factor = the factor number here }
and you're done that's how configuring hyprland in lua works.
You can add this too
hl.config({input={ touchpad = { scroll_factor = 1.5 } } } )
you can just keep adding
hl.config( [i]category[/i] = { [i] another category or variable/opiton [/i]}) 
I use KDE Plasma, I'm pretty sure this doesn't apply.
My bad I read wayland as hyprland and though you're using kde and hyprland so the problem exists in both, sorry
By the way can you try hyprland and do the above to check if this is kde's problem?

Ok, sure I'll see what changes.

seth · 2026-08-18 12:46:18

Can everybody please stop bloating the thread with mind- and senseless full quotes?

@haekele, can you quantify "the gesture doesn't get registered as easily on Linux as in Windows"?
The most common gestures are 2- and 3-finger clicks and scrolls and apparently that's not the problem.
"I need to do X with my fingers so that Y happens on KDE but on windows I only need to do Z"

The whole thing might be a HiDPI issue or just some KDE specific shortcut gestures being defined to something different than on windows (ie. the difference being deliberate)
As for chrome, does that happen to be an https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Waylan … plications client?

haekele · 2026-08-18 12:51:38

Honestly I just want for the scrolling speed to be a little slower on chrome, right now it's way too fast and I've tried some extensions and also tried disabling smooth scroll, none of which seemed to work

seth · 2026-08-18 12:56:59

seth wrote:

As for chrome, does that happen to be an https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Waylan … plications client?

Also is this actually google-chrome or chromium? Does the latter (or other electron clients/browsers in the official repo) exhibit the same behavior?

seth wrote:

The whole thing might be a HiDPI issue

haekele · 2026-08-18 12:58:52

I havent tried chromium, but brave which is chromium-based had the same problem, while Firefox didn't. And yeah, it's google-chrome.

seth · 2026-08-18 13:02:16

brave is also not in the repos.

seth multiple times wrote:

seth wrote:
As for chrome, does that happen to be an https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Waylan … plications client?
seth wrote:
The whole thing might be a HiDPI issue

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