<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/" /> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed" title="RESOLVED FIXED - Please provide ability to disable horizontal scroll" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91589#c6">Comment # 6</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed" title="RESOLVED FIXED - Please provide ability to disable horizontal scroll" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91589">bug 91589</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:grawity@gmail.com" title="Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity@gmail.com>"> Mantas Mikulėnas</a> <pre>(In reply to Daniel Stone from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=91589#c5">comment #5</a>) > Synaptics had 'lock' functionality, where as soon as you'd started scrolling > in one direction, you required a much higher relative threshold to start > scrolling in the other direction. That would seem to be a lot more useful > than having people just smash horizontal scroll off entirely. Heh, as always, some other users (e.g. me) would consider this 'locking' to be one of the most annoying misfeatures in the Windows touchpad drivers... I like free scrolling in all directions, exactly how libinput already implements it. (Cue xkcd 1172.) But on the other hand, "unintended scrolling in horizontal direction" is just half the story – some toolkits are even worse. Several programs – such as VirtualBox, rdesktop, xFreeRDP, some (not all) Java toolkits – outright misinterpret the horizontal-scroll events as if the *back/forward navigation buttons* were clicked (there used to be mice with such buttons), or as if PageUp/PageDown were pressed, or something equally annoying... For example, <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/700">https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/700</a> or <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10838">https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10838</a> or <a href="https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/issues/2302">https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/issues/2302</a> – some of those bug reports have remained unfixed for almost a decade. So I agree that either disabling or locking (as long as it's /optional/) can be useful as a workaround to such bugs... as much as I hate it, I've often had to disable horizontal scrolling to avoid making FreeRDP unusable. So thanks Peter for implementing this option.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>