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Smooth scrolling on Windows using laptops with Precision Touchpad
Scrolling with two fingers on the touchpad feels "janky". The root cause lies within Electron/Chromium and the way they convert touchpad gestures to mousewheel events.
- First reported in VSCode Version: 1.5.3
- https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/13612
- https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/12637
*** Confirmed workaround reported by @alexpaluzzi
During my testing, I discovered that the lag occurs if you start VS Code maximized. I thought maybe I was going crazy, but all I did was restore the window and then re-maximize it and all of the scroll jank was gone.
Unconfirmed workarounds:
reported by davidstoneham
Staring vscode with the flag "--disable-gpu" fixes the issue for me
reported by alexey-kozlenkov
If I run VSCode as an administrator, then scrolling does not work. If I run VSCode just as it is, scrolling does work.
reported by rcdmk
I have another trick that does work as long as I keep focus on the VS code window:
- Tap with tree fingers, so Search/Cortana pannel shows up to the left of screen.
- Swipe with two fingers over the VS code window and notice that the document does scroll