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by goosedragons 1135 days ago
There's lots of little things I think. Like I have my trackball scroll by holding down middle click and moving the ball. Not too hard to do in X11, works in all window managers too. I have no idea how to do it Wayland, it seems like it's a different process for every compositor/DE. I think maybe I could do it in GNOME but then I'd have to use GNOME.

So far the only positive thing I've noticed about Wayland is that it plays better with my pen tablet but that's also extremely frustrating because why is better pen support linked to the compositor/window manager in the first place. Everything else is either the same or worse.
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neurostimulant 1135 days ago
That's how thinkpad trackpoint works, right? Hold the middle button and you can scroll horizontally and vertically using the trackpoint. It works on gnome/wayland, so maybe there is a way to configure generic trackball to behave like that too.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/TrackPoint

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kaba0 1135 days ago
Just a guess but probably its due to libinput, which is used by default on Wayland. AFAIK it can also be set on X as the default for probably similarly good pen support, but I have never tried - I am more than fine with Wayland.
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