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libinput 1.29 Improving Scroll Wheel Responsiveness For Most Devices

([Wayland] 6 Hours Ago libinput 1.29 RC)


Peter Hutterer of Red Hat announced today the first release candidate of libinput 1.29, the newest version of this input handling library used across both X.Org and Wayland environments with the modern Linux desktop.

Libinput 1.29 predominantly consists of internal code restructuring but there is also some user improvements like scroll wheel mice having a new heuristic for detecting inadvertent scroll wheel movement. In turn this new heuristic should improve scroll wheel responsiveness for most devices out there.

Libinput 1.29 also fixes some ASUS touchpads having rather jerky motion and cursor jumps. Plus there are some improvements around virtual input device handling, some new configuration options, and introducing an internal plugin pipeline.

More details on these changes coming with the libinput 1.29 release can be found via today's [1]RC1 announcement .



[1] https://lore.freedesktop.org/wayland-devel/20250710060013.GA93373@quokka/T/#u



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