Improved Magic Mouse 1 & 2 scrolling support merged into 5.15

[vchernin]

Just wanted to note this recent addition to Kernel 5.15. The magic mice should scroll more smoothly and at higher resolution. The change also adds a movement threshold.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hid/hid.git/patch/?id=56e7b4940ba678b498a6156086f7823d86bf74ad

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Magic-Mouse-High-Res-Linux-5.15

Perhaps this, and the fact general support is in 5.13 (#8) should be mentioned in the readme? Most users are probably fine with 5.13+ or 5.15.

[RicardoEPRodrigues]

Hey, thank you for the report. I will pull these improvements into this drive so that everyone can make use of high-resolution scrolling without needing 5.15.

Yet, I believe the way the mouse driver is implemented should be different and I am taking some time to study libinput and how we can have a better mouse experience. (possibly including 2 finger gestures for example).

[RicardoEPRodrigues]

Also, High-Resolution Scrolling is still unavailable for any device without the new works under Wayland.

Take a look: https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Linux-to-Get-High-Resolution-Wheel-Scrolling

[vchernin]

It might be helpful to contact the author of the patches, as they seem to also be the one who created Touchégg.

[vchernin]

Also it looks like José is working on merging high resolution scrolling support into libinput!

[RicardoEPRodrigues]

Thank you for the info.

It looks like the basic scrolling for Magicmouse is going in the right direction. Let's hope it'll be in the next releases of Ubuntu! 🤞🤞🤞