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Idea #21135: True smooth scrolling

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #4849: Smooth scrolling in Gtk applications.
Written by Wim the 21 Aug 09 at 08:55. Related project: Gnome. Status: New
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Scrolling in a terminals,firefox, and lots of other applications is not smooth. You cannot, or hardly, read the content while it is scrolling. Back in ye olde days of DOS (yes) it was possible to make something scroll really smooth by watching the Vsync and updating every time. This made it possible to scroll very fast while maintaining readability.
This is not so much a problem of Gnome but of X, I think.
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Solution #1: Add smooth scrolling support in X
Written by Wim the 21 Aug 09 at 08:55.
Probably only the X server can use the Vsync, so it should provide a scrolling interface that can be used by Gnome and such.

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saivann (Brainstorm moderator) wrote on the 21 Aug 09 at 13:34
This idea is already implemented for firefox (see Idea 16288) but it is not enabled by default (Idea 11535). Gtk lacks this functionnality, as far as I know.


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