How to disable screen zoom?
This feature, which I didn't ask for, keeps getting me in trouble.
If I accidentally press Alt when momentum scrolling is happening, then every movement of a web page downward will be incorrectly registered like a down arrow key being pressed, which it is not, and zooming in will rapidly happen. UPDATE This defect is caused by the very bad idea from the X project which implements momentum scrolling in the DRIVER, not in the UI library layer like is done on iOS, Android, MacOS. So the driver sends a series of vertical up/down arrow keys to simulate momentum. Even after scrolling is stopped because the top/bottom has been reached, the keys keep coming because the DRIVER has no idea that the app doesn't need them anymore. This is clearly bad design. In fact it's an inversion of responsibility. |
So stop pressing Alt when you are scrolling. Problem solved. Or stop using computers.
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In xfce Settings > Settings Editor > xfwm4 > zoom_desktop
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As to your determination on why this happens, again, this is outside of the scope of Slackware, which just tries to package upstream packages as they provide them. You need to take these types of bug reports to upstream and hopefully they'll decide to get a fix implemented. If they don't implement a fix, but a patch is available, make the Slackware dev team aware of it and they'll balance the fix against the desire to stay vanilla and will decide what to do. |
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The real solution isn't to stop pressing alt, and Alien Bob knew that. But it seemed MozillaUser3172 hadn't even tried searching for this and comes in to complain about a feature (since this is a feature on xfce) that can be easily disabled with minimal searching on how to disable it. |
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To explain again, in Firefox if I scroll with momentum and the window hits the top or bottom, the Synaptics "kinetic" momentum feature keeps sending up/down key presses, because the browser has no way to inform it that the scrolling has stopped, thus after scrolling ends one has to wait for a while before pressing CTRL. |
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These are xfce features and if something is not able to be configured, that will need to be addressed through xfce devs. You may also want to try posting in https://forum.xfce.org to see if they're aware of some other option to change the behavior of this function. If this is that frustrating to you, you may want to try a different DE/WM. |
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