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Inertial scrolling in vertical tab bar (Wayland)

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I'm trying to replicate my windows setup in Fedora 42. I have been really liking the new vertical sidebar tabs option in windows. I have a lot of tabs and so rely on inertial scrolling to flick through them quickly.

However, there's odd behaviour with this in linux. With the window protocol set to xwayland, inertial scrolling on the sidebar tabs works, but inertial scrolling does not work in websites. Setting the window protocol to wayland (the general online recommendation to fix inertial scrolling), inertial scrolling in the tab list does not work, making them much less useful.

I'm trying to replicate my windows setup in Fedora 42. I have been really liking the new vertical sidebar tabs option in windows. I have a lot of tabs and so rely on inertial scrolling to flick through them quickly. However, there's odd behaviour with this in linux. With the window protocol set to xwayland, inertial scrolling on the sidebar tabs works, but inertial scrolling does not work in websites. Setting the window protocol to wayland (the general online recommendation to fix inertial scrolling), inertial scrolling in the tab list does not work, making them much less useful.

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Wayland is still considered as "in beta" for many linux distros even though Red Hat is credited as the founder. Compositing has been an issue for linux since about day 1 - it has always been considered a work in progress for whatever reasons from compiz to compon to enlightenment to wayland. My belief is that its been a moving target as graphic chips improved, starting with nVidia chips to Intel graphics up to today. You might want to try another window manager or destop environment with your Fedora. I don't think Firefox can be expected to alter the effects of webpages in general although it has smooth and auto scrolling, the use of which always escaped me. linux always has multiple ways to do the same thing so ask around.

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