crouton VS mouse-scroll-wheel-acceleration-userspace

It's a little more than that, they then added subpixel and momentum scrolling support to Chrome that bypasses X11 and does something custom [1]. Integration problems like this one that require a bunch of coordination are harder to do in open source land.

1. https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/issues/244

I'm guessing GP means natively, not in a VM. I've been super grateful for the VM-based method, but I still prefer the native experience like that provided by Crouton[1]. With Crouton being "maintenance-only" now I share GP's hope that a similar thing will be possible and easy.

[1]: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton

One way to install Crouton

Go to the github of crouton they have instructions there https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton

At any rate, you can try Breath, Crouton, Manjaro... those are three of the distros people have found success with. It all boils down to the specific hardware involved... which we know nothing about since you kept that to yourself.

Post in r/crouton and refer to https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton if you haven't already. However, I think it's fair to say that Crouton is now broken to the point of being effectively dead.

If you want to have mouse scroll wheel acceleration, you might be interested in a small project of mine: https://github.com/albertz/mouse-scroll-wheel-acceleration-u...

I'm using this all the time on non-Mac platforms. Once you get used to this, it's hard to get back.

But I'm still waiting that such a feature gets more built into the core, e.g. libinput or so.

Regarding quickly scrolling around in a large document, there is also scroll wheel acceleration, i.e. the users finger scroll speed is not just a linear function mapped onto the software scroll speed but rather it can accelerate.

MacOS, iOS and Android have this anyway, and a few custom software as well.

I implemented a cross platform user-space variant of this, to get mouse scroll wheel acceleration. You can even use this in addition to the native scroll wheel acceleration on MacOS.

https://github.com/albertz/mouse-scroll-wheel-acceleration-u...

Turn on adaptive acceleration. Enable gestures. Look into this project that ports macOS-style scrolling acceleration to X11 and Wayland: https://github.com/albertz/mouse-scroll-wheel-acceleration-userspace

I never had an iPod, but I wonder, did it use some acceleration scheme? I.e. your physical scroll speed was not just linearly mapped to the virtual scroll speed but some quadratic or even exponential scheme?

Because I know that they do the same on OSX for scrolling, i.e. scrolling has an acceleration scheme, which I very much enjoy, and always miss when I'm on other operating systems.

For that reason, I implemented such scroll acceleration in user space. Some further details and references are in the README. https://github.com/albertz/mouse-scroll-wheel-acceleration-u...

Workaround: https://github.com/albertz/mouse-scroll-wheel-acceleration-userspace. Enables inertia in Chromium and Qt apps, but breaks it in GTK apps (fun!).

Good video, but I find https://github.com/albertz/mouse-scroll-wheel-acceleration-userspace a much better solution.