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Linux Mint: enabling touch scrolling systemwide for every program

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How can I enable touch scrolling (touchscreen) systemwide for every program like it is done in Microsoft Windows? The distro in question is Mint.

 

For example to enable it in Firefox the "/etc/security/pam_env.conf" has to be edited with a Firefox specific parameter as such this change only effects Firefox meaning every other program is still lacking scrolling capabilities on a touchscreen.

The Declaration of Independence, once the charter of democracy, begins by saying that certain things are self-evident. If we were to trace the history of the American mind from Thomas Jefferson to William James, we should find that fewer and fewer things were self-evident, until at last hardly anything is self-evident. (G. K. Chesterton - Aug. 14 1926 (The Illustrated London News))

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Touchscreen support is very application dependent and there is no universal method to support it, some will work well and some wont. A lot of it also tends to rely on Wayland, even firefox supports it ootb on Wayland, meanwhile Cinnamon on Mint is still on X11 as far as I am aware.


In terms of best overall compatibility it would probably go to stock GNOME on Wayland, for other Applications you will just have to try them and see what works the best.

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@Nayr438 Are there any crude "hacks" to make it work in programs that don't have parameters/"settings" like Firefox?

The Declaration of Independence, once the charter of democracy, begins by saying that certain things are self-evident. If we were to trace the history of the American mind from Thomas Jefferson to William James, we should find that fewer and fewer things were self-evident, until at last hardly anything is self-evident. (G. K. Chesterton - Aug. 14 1926 (The Illustrated London News))

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@Nayr438 Tried half a dozen of distros and none of them worked out of the box: PopOS, Manjaro, Ubuntu, Zorin ...

The Declaration of Independence, once the charter of democracy, begins by saying that certain things are self-evident. If we were to trace the history of the American mind from Thomas Jefferson to William James, we should find that fewer and fewer things were self-evident, until at last hardly anything is self-evident. (G. K. Chesterton - Aug. 14 1926 (The Illustrated London News))

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You can try Fedora Workstation, it has a full stock version of GNOME, being a Enterprise based Distro however have they have a limited repository and nuke anything patent encumbered or conflicts with Enterprise licensing, such as codecs. Also be sure you are using Wayland and not X11.
I know at least PopOS and Ubuntu both ship modified versions of GNOME which may break accessibility.

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