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I don't understand the downvotes. Most terminal emulators have sucky laggy scroll (that becomes super visible with the type of scrolling you do with a trackpad)

I don't understand the downvotes. Most terminal emulators have sucky laggy scroll (that becomes super visible with the type of scrolling you do with a trackpad) and I'm not aware of any that do pixel-level smooth scrolling. Which is sad, smooth scroll works really well with such 1:1 input devices.

deathanatos 3y ago
… such as? Trackpad scrolling works fine for me, in everything I can think of. (macOS+Terminal.app => seems fine. macOS+iTerm2 => seems fine. Linux+Terminator => seems fine.) (Terminator will even scroll to partial lines with the trackpad. It won't do the sort of scrolling described in the OP, though … but that's not "sucky laggy scroll", either.)
- csdvrx 3y ago
  I think it's an issue of separating keyboard/trackpad/mouse scrolling: it may be beneficial in some cases, it may be burdensome in others. I wouldn't like smooth scrolling when I use PageUp/PageDown, unless it added minimal latency, because for full pages it would break the illusion. However, it may feel natural and normal with small and precise movements like multiple finger trackpad scroll for a few lines - at least if there's an acceleration curve to reduce the fps for large movements (many lines, or quick movements to scroll by full pages): it would help keep the perception of a low latency between the action and its "immediate" execution.
3np 3y ago
Which ones? I'm on relatively modest hardware and just scrolled my hardest using a trackpad in urxvt, xterm, xfce4-terminal, gnome-terminal, and they're all practically instant. You'd need to _introduce_ lag to have any pixel-by-pixel smoothing even be noticable. I consider pixel-by-pixel scrolling unnecessary eye-candy not worth the tradeoff. Consider that the capabilities in both hardware and software to do smooth/pixel-by-pixel scrolling in terminals have been around for decades - the reason it's not more common isn't necessarily technical. You may have a different preference but that doesn't make the status quo sucky, laggy, or sad.

deathanatos 3y ago

… such as? Trackpad scrolling works fine for me, in everything I can think of. (macOS+Terminal.app => seems fine. macOS+iTerm2 => seems fine. Linux+Terminator => seems fine.) (Terminator will even scroll to partial lines with the trackpad. It won't do the sort of scrolling described in the OP, though … but that's not "sucky laggy scroll", either.)

csdvrx 3y ago
I think it's an issue of separating keyboard/trackpad/mouse scrolling: it may be beneficial in some cases, it may be burdensome in others. I wouldn't like smooth scrolling when I use PageUp/PageDown, unless it added minimal latency, because for full pages it would break the illusion. However, it may feel natural and normal with small and precise movements like multiple finger trackpad scroll for a few lines - at least if there's an acceleration curve to reduce the fps for large movements (many lines, or quick movements to scroll by full pages): it would help keep the perception of a low latency between the action and its "immediate" execution.

3np 3y ago

Which ones? I'm on relatively modest hardware and just scrolled my hardest using a trackpad in urxvt, xterm, xfce4-terminal, gnome-terminal, and they're all practically instant. You'd need to _introduce_ lag to have any pixel-by-pixel smoothing even be noticable. I consider pixel-by-pixel scrolling unnecessary eye-candy not worth the tradeoff. Consider that the capabilities in both hardware and software to do smooth/pixel-by-pixel scrolling in terminals have been around for decades - the reason it's not more common isn't necessarily technical. You may have a different preference but that doesn't make the status quo sucky, laggy, or sad.