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LibreOffice is pretty damn good
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This works out of the box on KDE (should work on GNOME too), what desktop environment do you use?
Cinnamon, Mint 22. It works, but badly. Two finger scroll does nothing for a second, then jumps to the destination. You don't see anything in between, which is not how that interaction is meant to go (I start the gesture, realise I overshot the top of page two, then adjust back up, read the top, then keep on scrolling - all without releasing the gesture).
This thread describes it well: https://www.reddit.com/r/libreoffice/comments/enf3p4/touchpad_scroll_speed/
edit: i started digging into this again. I think it's just sensitivity being way too high within LO. If I go one mm at a time it works as expected. But of course I want to browse docs as comfortably as I browse pages on firefox.
That's my exact distro/de combo. Never had any issues with trackpad use that weren't also there with the win10 that came on the thinkpad. Which was just that it's prone to detecting even the lightest accidental taps and over reacting. Maybe it's device specific?
Edit: by device specific, I mean that it isn't every touchpad w/Libreoffice's issue, rather something that's wonky with some range of hardware and not others
Aha. This would make more sense - couldn't imagine this was happening on every laptop. Then I should add my device details to a github issue. Thanks for letting me know.