Yo! Glad to be here, first time caller, long time fan.
I did a full system upgrade a couple days back, and ever since, when I “double finger” scroll content up and down, it randomly zooms in instead (browser windows).
I can’t find anything in settings to disable this behavior. I always had pinch zoom, but since the upgrade two finger scrolling randomly interprets as zooming in, and it triggers very easily, while zooming out doesn’t work well at all.
Looked under touchpad settings, searched for zoom, I can’t find a way to get rid of it.
Could some kind soul guide me in the right direction here?
Yep, I also saw it recently – that’s browser feature that work only under Wayland. Fortunately you can disable it with –disable-pinch flag – should work in all chromium-like browsers, eg.:
vivaldi-stable --disable-pinch
For Firefox you need switch apz.gtk.touchpad_pinch.enabled to false in about:config
I’d forgotten about this! Probably because I normally use a mouse, but yes, that did trip me up a few times (pinch to zoom, with Firefox). I’ve been using Wayland for about 2½ years; guess this “feature” will come as a surprise to those who have just made the switch to Wayland.
My man! Thank you. It’s a solution to the problem, but it’s not the cause, because I used pinch previously as well, it just got super sensitive after the upgrade.
Could be something with the touchpad driver, but in any case, this is good enough for me. Solved.
Hey man, nope, I’ve been using Wayland for a very good while, something in the latest update just messed up the sensitivity of the touchpad somehow. But in any case, I was presented a workaround so I’ll live with that for now.
