Comment 0 for bug 1811219

High precision touchpad scrolling doesn't work in Wayland sessions (but does in Xorg).

I guess it's probably Xwayland failing to support the more advanced XInput stuff?

Note: This bug report is about high precision (and thus low latency) touchpad scrolling. It is not about "Smooth Scrolling" simply because "Smooth Scrolling" actually means something quite different in Chromium. :P

Test case:

1. In chrome://flags, set Smooth Scrolling to Disabled and restart the browser.
2. Use your touchpad (usually two fingers) to scroll a web page.

Observed:

In an Ubuntu session (pure Xorg), the scrolling is noticeably high precision like a Macbook or Chromebook. In a Wayland session however, the scrolling stutters badly like it's still using old-style mouse wheel emulation.

Note also: If you have "Smooth Scrolling" enabled then Chromium replaces the stutter with smoother scrolling but you can still tell it's broken in Wayland sessions because the latency is much higher. It's having to fake the smoothness based on mouse wheel-style coarseness.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: chromium-browser 71.0.3578.98-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-11.12-generic 4.18.12
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu14
Architecture: amd64
DRM.card0-DP-1:
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Date: Thu Jan 10 17:11:06 2019
Desktop-Session:
 'None'
 'None'
 '/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/var/lib/snapd/desktop'
DetectedPlugins:

Env:
 'None'
 'None'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-12-04 (37 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Alpha amd64 (20181203)
InstalledPlugins:
 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins:
   => libgnome-shell-browser-plugin.so
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Load-Processes-Running-Percent: 0.1%
MachineType: LENOVO 10M7CTO1WW
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.18.0-11-generic root=UUID=052b7096-9b82-4712-b596-7629d5f6498c ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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dmi.bios.version: M16KT47A
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dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
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