Scrolling is too fast

[thstyl2000]

Hello and thank you for this great piece of software! Everything works great, except from the scrolling speed of the wheel that is way too fast, which makes it practically unusable.

[mafredri]

Hey @thstyl2000, have you tried using any linux tools to change the scrolling sensitivity/speed for the virtual mouse device created by magic4linux? I'm not sure if it's possible as I haven't tried to do it myself, though.

I could perhaps add an option to magic4linux. Do you think a multiplier (like * 0.5) is what you would need or would a static value (like - 50) be better?

Currently the scroll amount is decided via the delta sent from webOS:

magic4linux/cmd/magic4linux/main.go

Line 183 in 48e70cc

mouse.Wheel(false, m.Wheel.Delta)

and for some reason your system is interpreting this as a very large value, I suppose.

[thstyl2000]

Hello there! There may be a way to adjust mouse speed on the desktop side, but it hasn't been that obvious to me (didn't find a way to do that without adding some additional xorg device and linking it to the created uinput mouse). Is there a practical difference between multiplier and absolute value? Maybe using a multiplier would allow finer adjustments (since one wouldn't know what the current absolute value is).

[mafredri]

The practical difference depends on what you want to achieve. If, for instance, you notice a difference between scrolling fast and scrolling slow, then a multiplier might be good since it'll affect the result evenly. On the other hand, if both scrolling slow and fast result in too much scrolling, a constant value may work better since it might be hard/impossible to find a multiplier that works well with both slow and fast scrolling.

[thstyl2000]

Alright, then how about sth like a*x+b?