problem: cant change touchpad scrolling speed and double tap timeout duration

[lethal tundra]

so i went to "mouse and touchpad" from the start menu and clicked on touchpad and cant find these settings.
increasing touchpad speed doesnt change touchpad scroll speed 😞

[vivid surge]

Touchpad scroll speed depends on how fast you scroll with your actual fingers

[lethal tundra]

so can it not be changed unlike in windows

i thought linux has more customizability

[trail stag]

It can be, cinnamon doesn't offer graphical option for it. Install imwheel:

sudo apt install imwheel

create config file

xed ~/.imwheelrc

in the opened file paste

".*"
None,      Up,   Button4, 3
None,      Down, Button5, 3

Where 3 is the scroll speed for up and down separately. Save the file and run

imwheel -b

to activate. To cancel the change, run

imwheel -k

[lethal tundra]

thanks but i also wanna know where you got this from, is there a document where you can know about more settings like these

[trail stag]

After installing, run

man imwheel

It was designed for mice yes, but often works for touchpads too

[lethal tundra]

what about imwheel itself? where did you know that it exists and is there a document with other apps and stuff like this but for different purposes like sound etc.

[trail stag]

If you google "how to change scroll speed in cinnamon" you'll come across this method - that's where I know it from

[vivid surge]

Depends on what distro you run