Edit Touchpad Scroll Speed in Wayland
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Clone the Following Repo #
git clone https://gitlab.com/warningnonpotablewater/libinput-config
Install the Following Packages #
sudo apt install libinput-dev libinput-tools meson
Then follow the directions in the repo. Here’s the summary.
meson build cd build # meson configure -Dnon_glibc=true # meson configure -Dshitty_sandboxing=true ninja sudo ninja install
- If you’re using a C library that’s not glibc, uncomment the third line. (#12)
- If you’re using Snap and seeing error messages when launching apps, uncomment the fourth line. (#13)
Create and Edit Config File #
We need to create a file, /etc/libinput.conf
and insert our key value pairs. Were interested in editing our scroll speed, so the key would be scroll-factor
. A value of 0.3 works great for me.
echo "scroll-factor=0.3" | sudo tee -a /etc/libinput.conf > /dev/null && sudo touch /etc/libinput.conf