Following on from my last post about installing libinput-config to better set touchpad scroll speed in GNOME I decided to look into other options that suit my workflow better.

I’d heard a lot of good things about Plasma 6, so decided to revisit it on Arch, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, Tuxedo OS and finally landed on Fedora. Fedora provides a nice sweet spot between modern, almost bleeding edge packages but on a point-release, stable base. Whilst I enjoy tinkering, I do need a stable machine that works reliably for work and play.

KDE also allows you to modify the touchpad speed, which is great, as it means I no longer need to install a random, unmaintained package to modify this value (as I had to in GNOME).

KDE allows you to change the scroll speed on a toggle basis, but doesn’t allow you to set a value of 0.20 (which is the perfect setting for me). I was able to modify /home/%user/.config/kcminputrc and change the scroll factor to 0.20. I also really need smooth scrolling, or more commonly known as kinetic scrolling around the internet. I noticed that Chromium based browsers don’t support this, so have switched to Firefox which supports it out of the box. With that, my perfect Linux journey and home has finally been realised.

See screenshot of my current setup:

I plan to stay on Fedora for a while and will also install it on my desktop when I have some time.