Another Rawhide bug: middle button then trackpad scroll down causes page up

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Thu Feb 9 12:27:55 UTC 2012


On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 05:30:42PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=788632
> 
> If you middle click on any scrolling window, then (even some time
> later) use the track pad two-finger thing to scroll down, the window
> will "jump up" as if PgUp has been pressed.  It's incredibly annoying
> and makes things like browsing results lists in Google barely usable.
> 
> Originally I blamed this on Firefox, but it also happens in a terminal
> window (XFCE Terminal).
> 
> What to assign this to?  X?  XFCE?  Something else?

this is a bug in the smooth scrolling implementation in the X server.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45611 is the upstream bug, I
don't have a fix for it yet though.

Cheers,
  Peter


More information about the devel mailing list