From 3d87d74a23d13e853f202cc589eb750c40f9e2be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 12:14:26 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] ; * etc/PROBLEMS: Entry about slow mouse-wheel with GTK3 (bug#70002). --- etc/PROBLEMS | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 642c3d0169e..16521e257dd 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -2069,6 +2069,16 @@ For such programs to function again, Emacs must be run on an X server where the input extension is disabled, or alternatively be configured with the "--without-xinput2" option. +*** Scrolling with mouse-wheel lags in GTK3 builds. + +We don't know why this happens, but one workaround is to build Emacs +with a different toolkit. For example: + + ./configure --without-toolkit-scroll-bars --with-x-toolkit=athena + +This produces a build which uses Athena toolkit, and disables toolkit +scroll bars which could sometimes be slow. + * Runtime problems on character terminals ** The meta key does not work on xterm.